First occurrence of Eucoleus contortus in a Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax: Negative effect of Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa releases on steppe bird conservation?

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 405-406

  Villanúa, Diego ^a   Casas, Fabián ^a   Viñuela, Javier ^a   Gortázar, Christian ^a   García De La Morena, Eladio ^b   Morales, Manuel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDOPARASITE; GAMEBIRD; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEMATODE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STEPPE; WILD POPULATION;

CASTILLA-LA MANCHA; CIUDAD REAL [CASTILLA-LA MANCHA]; EURASIA; EUROPE; MIGUELTURRA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALECTORIS RUFA; AVES; EUCOLEUS CONTORTUS; TETRAX TETRAX;

EID: 34047101424     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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