Landscape composition models for breeding bird populations in lowland English farmland over a 20 year period

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-307

  Fuller, R J ^a   Trevelyan, R J ^a,b   Hudson, R W ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; BREEDING BIRD; FARMLAND; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE;

UK, ENGLAND;

EID: 0030618686     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00374.x     Document Type: Article

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