Disturbance from roads negatively affects Andean condor habitat use

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1765-1772

  Speziale, Karina L ^a,b   Lambertucci, Sergio A ^a   Olsson, Ola ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Giving up densities; Human disturbance; Roads; Vigilance; Vultur gryphus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOINDICATOR; DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; MORTALITY RISK; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTION; ROAD; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA; GYMNOGYPS; OVIS ARIES; VULTUR GRYPHUS;

EID: 46749133474     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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