Soaring migratory birds avoid wind farm in the isthmus of tehuantepec, Southern Mexico

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Villegas Patraca, Rafael ^a   Cabrera Cruz, Sergio A ^a   Herrera Alsina, Leonel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIRD; FLYING; MEXICO; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND; WIND FARM;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MEXICO;

EID: 84898617983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092462     Document Type: Article

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