Overlap between wind power plants and Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus in Spain

Bird Study

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-271

  Tellería, Jose Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; HABITAT LOSS; HOME RANGE; POWER PLANT; RAPTOR; WIND POWER;

SPAIN;

GYPS FULVUS;

EID: 70350569477     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650902792056     Document Type: Article

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