Doomed to die? Predicting extinction risk in the true hawks Accipitridae

Animal Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-91

  Kruger O ^a   Radford, A N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Ecological specialization; Extinction risk; Independent contrasts; Population size; Range size

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLUTCH SIZE; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PLUMAGE; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE SIZE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ACCIPITRINAE; AVES;

EID: 41549153792     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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