Response of oriental white storks Ciconia boyciana to the accumulative impact of anthropogenic habitat destruction and possible Allee effect

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-300

  Liu, Hui Yu ^a   Lin, Zhen Shan ^a   Liu, Hong Yu ^a,b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Accumulative impact; Allee effect; Habitat destruction; Oriental white stork; Scaling relation

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PATCH SIZE; SCALE EFFECT; WADER;

CICONIA BOYCIANA; CICONIA CICONIA BOYCIANA;

EID: 53149112739     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270908000440     Document Type: Article

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