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Diurnal raptors in the fragmented rain forest of the Sierra Imataca, Venezuela

The rain forest of the Sierra Imataca in eastern Venezuela has been subjected to extensive deforestation for pastures and agricultural settlements. In the last decade the opening of access roads combined with intensified logging and mining activities have fragmented a significant portion of the remaining forest. We noted local distribution and habitat use for 42 species of diurnal raptors observ
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E. Alvarez, D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, C.T. LaRue

Egg and semen production

No abstract available.
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C.M. Mirande, G.F. Gee, A. Burke, P. Whitlock

Environments, processes and interactions of estuarine shores

No abstract available.
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C. T. Roman, K.F. Nordstrom

Estimating the historical abundance of sea otters in California

No abstract available at this time
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D.P. DeMaster, C. Marzin, R.J. Jameson

Evaluating vasectomy as a means of wolf control

No abstract available.
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R.G. Haight, L. D. Mech

Feral animals on rangelands

No abstract available.
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C. L. Douglas, David M. Leslie

Foreword

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W. N. Beyer, G. H. Heinz, A.W. Redmon-Norwood

Forword

(excerpt from Forword) The Mediterranean Symposium, part of the annual conference of The Colonial Waterbird Society in October 1993 in Arles, France, was the successful culmination of ideas shared among leading European waterbird and wetland scientists... Both invited and contributed papers focused on two areas - breeding biology (especially of threatened or little known species), and feeding ec
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R.M. Erwin

Genetic management

No abstract available.
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C.M. Mirande, G.F. Gee, S.R. Swengel, C. Sheppard

Gull of Mexico and Caribbean EEZ: Part III

No abstract available.
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David C. Twichell, Kathryn M. Scanlon, William P. Dillon

Henslow's sparrow, Ammodramus henslowii

No abstract available.
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D.D. Boone, B.A. Dowell