期刊名称：International Journal of Conservation Science
印刷版ISSN：2067-533X
电子版ISSN：2067-8223
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：111-118
出版社：Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
摘要：Vultures are large sized birds with late maturity and a low reproductive output, making populations especially vulnerable to adult mortality caused by environmental and anthropogenic perturbations. During the last few decades the Thar witnessed tremendous human activities, because of an increase in population. It underwent phenomenal ecotransformations, with dry land turning in to wet in several parts of the Thar Desert. The increase in population within this region generated several new challenges for the habits of vultures. The findings of the current investigation suggest that changes in the traditional cattle treatment pattern, the increase in the feral dogs population, the presence of high tension electricity poles near to dumping sites, the unavailability of food and water and the opening of a carcass waste management treatment plant were causes that adversely affected the biodiversity of vultures in the area under investigation
关键词：Endangered; Diclophenac; Electrocution; Mortality; Vulture decline; Thar
