The effect of agricultural landscape structure on food resources and survival of grey partridge Perdix perdix chicks in Poland

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 787-792

  Panek, Marek ^a  

^a Polish Hunting Association   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chick survival; Habitat diversity; Heteroptera; Plant bugs

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MIRIDAE; PERDIX PERDIX;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE; ARABLE FIELD; CHICK SURVIVAL; GREY PARTRIDGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE;

POLAND, CZEMPIN; POLAND, KUTNO;

EID: 0030616714     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2404923     Document Type: Article

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