Assessing the causes of breeding failure among the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) during the nestling period

Polar Research

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL., 2012, Pages

  Pokrovsky, Ivan ^a,b   Ehrich, Dorothee ^a   Ims, Rolf A ^a   Kulikova, Olga ^c   Lecomte, Nicolas ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Buteo lagopus; Camera monitoring; Heat wave; Nestling mortality rough legged buzzard; Siblicide

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MONITORING; MORTALITY; NESTLING; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

BUTEO LAGOPUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84863749340     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v31i0.17294     Document Type: Article

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