Correlates of breeding success of horned Grebes in Scotland

Waterbirds

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-275

  Summers, Ron W ^a   Mavor, Roddy A ^a   Hancock, Mark H ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crow; Human disturbance; Mustelidae; Pike; Predation; Water clarity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BREEDING SITE; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; WATER QUALITY; WATERFOWL;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; ESOX LUCIUS; MUSTELIDAE; PODICEPS AURITUS; PODICIPEDIDAE;

EID: 77749254927     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.032.0206     Document Type: Article

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