Population trends of Critically Endangered Gyps vultures in the lowlands of Nepal

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 270-278

  Chaudhary, Anand ^a   Subedi, Tulsi Ram ^b   Giri, Jeet Bahadur ^c   Baral, Hem Sagar ^e   Bidari, Basu ^a   Subedi, Hem ^a   Chaudhary, Badri ^d   Chaudhary, Ishwori ^a   Paudel, Khadananda ^a   Cuthbert, Richard J ^f  

^a Bird Conservation Nepal   (Nepal)

^b Red Panda Network   (Nepal)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^d Koshi Camp ^*  (Nepal)

^e Himalayan Nature   (Nepal)

^f RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DRUG; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPTOR; TREND ANALYSIS;

NEPAL;

AVES; GYPS; GYPS AFRICANUS; GYPS BENGALENSIS; GYPS TENUIROSTRIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84866362928     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270911000426     Document Type: Article

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