Anticipating knowledge to inform species management: Predicting spatially explicit habitat suitability of a colonial vulture spreading its range

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Mateo Tomás, Patricia ^a   Olea, Pedro P ^a  

^a IE UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUROPE; GYPS FULVUS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FALCONIFORMES; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CAPRA HIRCUS; GYPS FULVUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FALCONIFORMES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77957885607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012374     Document Type: Article

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