Emigration and mortality of black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus) and disappearance of the macrophyte Egeria densa in a ramsar wetland site of southern Chile

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 607-609

  Lopetegui, Eduardo J ^a   Vollmann, Roberto S ^a   Cifuentes, Heraldo C ^a   Valenzuela, Cristian D ^a   Suarez, Nelson L ^b   Herbach, Enrique P ^a   Huepe, Jorge U ^a   Jaramillo, Gastón V ^a   Leischner, Bruno P ^a   Riveros, Ricardo S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; MACROPHYTE; MORTALITY; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; CHILE; DUCKS AND GEESE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROCHARITACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL; WETLAND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; CHILE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROCHARITACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

CYGNUS MELANCORYPHUS; EGERIA DENSA;

EID: 37349057439     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[607:EAMOBS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Short Survey

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28. This study was funded by Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CONAMA), Chile.
29. We thank Roberto Rosas and Luis Miranda (rangers of the sanctuary) and personnel of the Chilean Navy and the National Police (Carabineros de Chile) for their help during the collection of the swans. We also thank Horacio Merlet and Miguel Stutzin (Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, Chile) for their help in obtaining the four swans from Puerto Natales.