A new scientific research analyses key vital rates in
Western Europe Bonelli’s Eagle populations between 1980 and 2009. It alerts
that North Spain populations are the ones at greatest risk. The research,
published on the journal Ecological Monographs, a publication of the Ecological
Society of America, is headed by experts Joan Real and Antonio Hernández
Matías, from the Conservation Biology Group of the Department of Animal Biology
and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the UB. Experts from the
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) and research centres
from Spain, Portugal and South Africa collaborated too.