Cattle grazing, raptor abundance and small mammal communities in Mediterranean grasslands

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 565-575

  Torre, Ignacio ^a   Díaz, Mario ^b   Martínez Padilla, Jesús ^c   Bonal, Raúl ^b,d   Viñuela, Javier ^b   Fargallo, Juan A ^e  

^a Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers La Tela   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cattle exclosure; Eurasian kestrel abundance; Small mammal abundance; Soil compaction; Species richness; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BOS; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES;

EID: 35048883387     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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