Post-Soviet agricultural change predicts future declines after recent recovery in Eurasian steppe bird populations

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2607-2614

  Kamp, Johannes ^a,b   Urazaliev, Ruslan ^c   Donald, Paul F ^a   Hölzel, Norbert ^b  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Office 406   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Grassland; Grazing; Kazakhstan; Land use change

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ARABLE LAND; BIOME; FUTURE PROSPECT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SAMPLING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; STEPPE;

KAZAKHSTAN; USSR;

AVES; PONTIA;

EID: 80052574163     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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