October 2, 2013

Bonelli’s Eagle: a thirty-year study of European populations to know dynamics and improve conservation



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.