Conservation of Scops Owl Otus scops in the Alps: Relationships with grassland management, predation risk and wider biodiversity

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-50

  Sergio, Fabrizio ^a   Marchesi, Luigi ^b   Pedrini, Paolo ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Trento Museum of Natural Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agricultural change; Alpine meadows; Butterflies; Indicator species; Intraguild predation

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MEADOW; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; OTUS; OTUS SCOPS; PAPILIONOIDEA; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO;

EID: 58149099906     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00865.x     Document Type: Article

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