Managing supplementary feeding for avian scavengers: Guidelines for optimal design using ecological criteria

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1707-1715

  Cortés Avizanda, Ainara ^a   Carrete, Martina ^a   Donázar, José Antonio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carrion; Resource competition; Sanitary laws; Scavengers; Vulture restaurants

Indexed keywords

CARRION; CONTEST COMPETITION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; FEEDING; LIVESTOCK; RAPTOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SANITATION; SCAVENGER; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SPECIES CONSERVATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 77954363377     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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