Breeding abundance of threatened raptors as estimated from occurrence data

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 766-778

  Sarà, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distribution atlas; Eagle; Falcon; Lesser Kestrel; Negative binomial distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIELD SURVEY; MODEL TEST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; RAPTOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AQUILA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; FALCO BIARMICUS; FALCO NAUMANNI; FALCO PEREGRINUS; FALCONIDAE; HIERAAETUS FASCIATUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 52649105891     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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