Assessing range-wide conservation status change in an unmonitored widespread African bird species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 106-119

  Senyatso, Kabelo J ^a,b   Collar, Nigel J ^a,c   Dolman, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BirdLife Botswana   (Botswana)

^c BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Evidence based conservation; Geographic range change; Kori Bustard; Otididae; Population decline; Tropical

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIRD; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA SET; HOME RANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ARDEOTIS KORI; AVES; OTIDIDAE;

EID: 84872128508     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00909.x     Document Type: Article

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