Factors affecting songbird communities using new short rotation coppice habitats in spring

Bird Study

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-213

  Sage, R B ^a   Robertson, P A ^a  

^a GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus; Aegithalos; Alauda; Anthus; Carduelis; Emberiza; Erithacus; Fringilla; Luscinia; Motacilla; Muscicapa; Parus; Passer; Phylloscopus; Populus; Prunella; Pyrrhula; Salix; Sylvia; Troglodytes; Turdus

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COPPICE; SHORT ROTATION COPPICE; SONGBIRD;

IRELAND; UK;

POPULUS; SALICACEAE; SALIX;

EID: 0030302829     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659609461012     Document Type: Article

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