Wintering habitats of Eleonora's Falcons Falco eleonorae in Madagascar

Bird Study

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-36

  Mellone, Ugo ^a   López López, Pascual ^a,b   Limiñana, Ruben ^a,c   Urios, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION ROUTE; OPEN SPACE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RAPTOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPILLOVER EFFECT; WINTER;

MADAGASCAR; SPAIN;

AVES; FALCO ELEONORAE; FALCONIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84857215057     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2011.632401     Document Type: Article

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