Habitat use of raptors in response to anthropogenic land use on Bonaire and Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-29

  Nijman, Vincent ^a,b   Booij, Janet ^b   Flikweert, Maarten ^b   Aliabadian, Mansour ^b,c   de Freitas, John A ^d   Vonk, Ronald ^b   Prins, Tineke G ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^d CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Buteo albicaudatus; Caracara plancus; Caribbean; Falco sparverius; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; HABITAT USE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR; URBANIZATION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

BONAIRE; CURACAO; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

AVES; BUTEO ALBICAUDATUS; CARACARA; FALCO SPARVERIUS; FALCONIDAE; POLYBORUS PLANCUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 79951567806     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v45i1.a6     Document Type: Article

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