Low-budget ready-to-fly unmanned aerial vehicles: An effective tool for evaluating the nesting status of canopy-breeding bird species

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 425-430

  Weissensteiner, M H ^a   Poelstra, J W ^a   Wolf, J B W ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BREEDING POPULATION; CANOPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

AVES; CORVUS CORONE CORNIX;

EID: 84948380782     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jav.00619     Document Type: Article

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