Use of remote sensing to identify suitable breeding habitat for the Kentish Plover and estimate population size along the western coast of Saudi Arabia

Wader Study Group Bulletin

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-39

  AlRashidi, Monif ^a,b   Long, Peter R ^a   O'Connell, Mark ^c   Shobrak, Mohammed ^d   Székely, Tamás ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Ecological Research and Training   (United Kingdom)

^d TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Charadrius alexandrinus; Kentish Plover; Population size; Red Sea; Remote sensing; Snowy Plover; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS;

EID: 84861608314     PISSN: 02603799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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