Assessing habitat and resource availability for an endangered desert bird species in eastern Morocco: The Houbara Bustard

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 597-620

  Hingrat, Yves ^a,c   Ysnel, Frédéric ^b   Saint Jalme, Michel S ^c   Le Cuziat, Joseph ^a,d   Béranger, Pierre Marie ^a   Lacroix, Frédéric ^a  

^a Emirates Center for Wildlife Propagation (ECWP)   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arthropod assemblages; Arthropod biomass; Canonical Analysis of Principal Coordinates; Habitat classification; Houbara Bustard; Morocco; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; OTIDIDAE; STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 33847678617     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-0603-0     Document Type: Article

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