Assessing strategies to reconcile agriculture and bird conservation in the temperate grasslands of South America

Conservation Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 618-627

  Dotta, G ^a,b   Phalan, B ^a   Silva, T W ^b   Green, R ^a   Balmford, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bird density; Bird responses to yield; Cattle ranching; Eucalypt; Land sharing; Land sparing; Northern Campos; Soya

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CATTLE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CROP YIELD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LAND MANAGEMENT; LIVESTOCK FARMING; POPULATION DENSITY; RANCHING; SOYBEAN; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BRAZIL; CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; URUGUAY;

AVES; BOS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GRASSLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GRASSLAND;

EID: 84949942872     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12635     Document Type: Article

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