Colony-site selection drives management priorities for yelkouan shearwater populations

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1188-1193

  Bourgeois, Karen ^a   Vidal, Eric ^a   Comor, Vincent ^a   Legrand, Jerome ^a   Dromzee, Sylvain ^b  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Ile de Port Cros   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding habitat selection; French mediterranean islands; Logistic regression; Puffinus yelkouan; Seabirds; Suitable colony site availability; Yelkouan shearwater

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COASTAL ZONE; COLONY; FELID; FERAL ORGANISM; ISLAND; REFUGE; SEABIRD; SITE SELECTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HYERES ISLANDS; PORT CROS ISLAND; PORT CROS NATIONAL PARK; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; VAR; WESTERN EUROPE;

PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN;

EID: 48249155817     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-052     Document Type: Article

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