Standards for documenting and monitoring bird reintroduction projects

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-235

  Sutherland, William J ^a   Armstrong, Doug ^b   Butchart, Stuart H M ^c   Earnhardt, Joanne M ^d   Ewen, John ^e   Jamieson, Ian ^f   Jones, Carl G ^g   Lee, Rebecca ^h   Newbery, Peter ⁱ   Nichols, James D ^j   Parker, Kevin A ^k   Sarrazin, François ^l   Seddon, Philip J ^f   Shah, Nirmal ^m   Tatayah, Vikash ⁿ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^d LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^g DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^j PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^k MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^l SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^m NATURE SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

ⁿ MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

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Author keywords

Birds; Evidence based conservation; Reintroduction; Translocation

Indexed keywords

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952953444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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