Building Development and Roads: Implications for the Distribution of Stone Curlews across the Brecks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Clarke, Ralph T ^a,b   Liley, Durwyn ^b   Sharp, Joanna M ^b   Green, Rhys E ^c,d  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Footprint Ecology   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; ARTICLE; BIRD; BUILDING; BURHINUS OEDICNEMUS; HABITAT; HOUSING; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84883428203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072984     Document Type: Article

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