Riparian old-growth forests provide critical nesting and foraging habitat for Blakiston's fish owl Bubo blakistoni in Russia

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Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 553-560

  Slaght, Jonathan C ^a,c   Surmach, Sergei G ^b   Gutierrez R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Blakiston's fish owl; Bubo blakistoni; habitat characteristics; nest sites; old growth forest; Primorye; riparian; Russia

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FEEDING GROUND; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; NEST SITE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAPTOR; RARE SPECIES; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84884995526     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605312000956     Document Type: Article

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