Post-soviet steppe management causes pronounced synanthropy in the globally threatened sociable lapwing vanellus gregarius

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 452-463

  Kamp, Johannes ^a,b   Sheldon, Robert D ^b   Koshkin, Maxim A ^c   Donald, Paul F ^b   Biedermann, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c Office 406   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Grazing; Habitat suitability models; Kazakhstan

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRAZING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STEPPE; WADER;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOS; VANELLUS; VANELLUS GREGARIUS;

EID: 67849128430     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00938.x     Document Type: Article

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