Have population declines in Egyptian Vulture and Red-headed Vulture in India slowed since the 2006 ban on veterinary diclofenac?

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 272-281

  Galligan, Toby H ^a   Amano, Tatsuya ^b   Prakash, Vibhu M ^c   Kulkarni, Mandar ^c   Shringarpure, Rohan ^c   Prakash, Nikita ^c   Ranade, Sachin ^c   Green, Rhys E ^b   Cuthbert, Richard J ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; DRUG; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; PROTECTED AREA;

INDIA;

NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS; SARCOGYPS CALVUS;

EID: 84911420114     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270913000580     Document Type: Review

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