Food predictability determines space use of endangered vultures: Implications for management of supplementary feeding

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 938-949

  Lo'pez Lo'pez, Pascual ^a   Garci'a Ripollés, Clara ^a   Urios, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation; Egyptian Vulture; Food predictability; Home range; Kernel density estimators; Neophron percnopterus; Resource utilization functions; Satellite telemetry; Spatial ecology; Utilization distribution; Vulture restaurants

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HOME RANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDICTION; RAPTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EGYPT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FALCONIFORMES; SPAIN;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FALCONIFORMES; SPAIN;

EID: 84903830629     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2000.1     Document Type: Article

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