Long-term relationship between diet breadth and breeding success in a declining population of Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus

Ibis

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 184-188

  Margalida, Antoni ^a,b   Benítez, José R ^c   Sánchez Zapata, José A ^d   Ávila, Enrique ^c   Arenas, Rafael ^e   Donázar, José A ^f  

^a Bearded Vulture Study and Protection Group   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Junta de Andalucía ^*  (Spain)

^d MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^e Dirección Provincial de Córdoba   (Spain)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding output; Dietary breadth; Foraging efficiency; Population dynamics; Spain

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; LAGOMORPH; LIVESTOCK; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

SPAIN;

AVES; MAMMALIA; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 83855163566     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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