Exclusion of ground predators improves Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus chick survival

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 531-542

  Rickenbach, Olivia ^a,b   Grüebler, Martin U ^a   Schaub, Michael ^a,c   Koller, Andreia ^a   Naef Daenzer, Beat ^a   Schifferli, Luc ^a  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chick predation; Electric fence; Multistate mark recapture analysis; Northern Lapwing; Radiotracking; Vanellus vanellus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CANID; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FEEDING GROUND; FLEDGING; HATCHING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR; RADIOTELEMETRY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SURVIVAL; WADER;

EUROPE;

AVES; VANELLUS VANELLUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 79958791139     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01136.x     Document Type: Article

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