Determining high value areas for steppe birds in Spain: Hot spots, complementarity and the efficiency of protected areas

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3255-3275

  Traba, Juan ^a   García De La Morena, Eladio L ^a   Morales, Manuel B ^a   Suárez, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Efficiency of protected areas; Hotspots; Spain; Steppe birds; Threat status changes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIRD; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; INDEX METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; RANKING; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE; VULNERABILITY;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES;

EID: 36148995064     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9138-2     Document Type: Article

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