Dietary habits in the endangered Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus from Upper Pleistocene to modern times in Spain: A paleobiological conservation perspective

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 469-476

  Margalida, Antoni ^a,b   Marín Arroyo, Ana B ^c  

^a Bearded Vulture Study and Protection Group   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES PREHISTÓRICAS DE CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRAZING; PALEOBIOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNGULATE;

SPAIN;

EID: 84890722283     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270912000500     Document Type: Article

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