Continued declines of Redshank Tringa totanus breeding on saltmarsh in Great Britain: Is there a solution to this conservation problem?

Bird Study

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 370-383

  Malpas, Lucy R ^a   Smart, Jennifer ^a   Drewitt, Allan ^b   Sharps, Elwyn ^a,c,d   Garbutt, Angus ^c  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAZING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SALTMARSH; SITE INVESTIGATION; SURVEYING;

EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84882325008     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2013.781112     Document Type: Article

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