Application of a predictive model to detect long-term changes in nest-site selection in the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus: Conservation in relation to territory shrinkage

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 242-249

  Margalida, Antoni ^a   Donázar, José Antonio ^b   Bustamante, Javier ^b   Hernández, Francisco José ^c   Romero Pujante, Mariló ^d  

^a Bearded Vulture Study and Protection Group   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Egmasa ^*  (Spain)

^d EGMASA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cliffs; Conspecific attraction; Despotic competition; Habitat quality; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; NEST SITE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAPTOR; REINTRODUCTION;

GYPAETUS BARBATUS;

EID: 41149157863     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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