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Response to habitat modification by foraging Dark-chanting Goshawks Melierax metabates in a West African savanna

Ralph Buij, Auteur ; Nikie Van Dorst, Auteur ; Henriette F. Salomons, Auteur ; Barbara M. Croes, Auteur ; Maurine W. Dietz, Auteur ; Jan Komdeur, Auteur

Dans Bird Conservation International (25(3) SEP 2015)

Anthropogenic habitat alteration has probably contributed significantly to the decrease of raptor populations in West African savannas. To evaluate the impact of habitat degradation on foraging by sedentary Afrotropical raptors, we investigated [...]

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Raptor habitat use in the Lake Chad Basin: insights into the effect of flood-plain transformation on Afrotropical and Palearctic raptors

Ralph Buij, Auteur ; Barbara M. Croes, Auteur

Dans Bird Conservation International (23(2) JUN 2013)

West African flood-plains have undergone major land-use transformations in the second half of the 20th century. To obtain insight in the effect of flood-plain development for irrigated rice cultivation on the abundance, richness, and diversity o[...]

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The role of breeding range, diet, mobility and body size in associations of raptor communities and land-use in a West African savanna

Ralph Buij, Auteur ; Barbara M. Croes, Auteur ; Gerrit Gort, Auteur ; Jan Komdeur, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (166 OCT 2013)

To provide insight into raptor declines in western Africa, we investigated associations between land-use and raptor distribution patterns in Cameroon. We examined the role of breeding distribution, species' migratory mobility, diet, body size, a[...]

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