Land-use changes may explain the recent range expansion of the Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus in southern Europe

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-716

  Balbontín, Javier ^a   Negro, Juan José ^b   Sarasola, José Hernán ^c   Ferrero, Juan José ^d   Rivera, Domingo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^d Dirección General del Medio Natural   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dehesa; Habitat selection; Land use change; Occurrence models; Raptors

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; RAPTOR; RODENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ELANUS; ELANUS CAERULEUS; RAPTORES; RODENTIA;

EID: 52649089612     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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