Protected areas do not fulfil the wintering habitat needs of the trans-Saharan migratory Montagu's harrier

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Limiñana, Ruben ^a,b   Soutullo, Alvaro ^b,c,d   Arroyo, Beatriz ^a   Urios, Vicente ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL   (Uruguay)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Circus pygargus; Ecological niche modelling; Land uses; MaxEnt; Raptors; Sahel

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING SITE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INSECT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NICHE PARTITIONING; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PROTECTED AREA; RAPTOR; SATELLITE DATA;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

AVES; CIRCUS; CIRCUS PYGARGUS; HEXAPODA; RAPTORES;

EID: 84856223749     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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