Long-term changes in the abundance of passerines in britain and ireland as measured by constant effort mist-netting

Bird Study

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-275

  Peach, Will J ^a,b   Baillie, Stephen R ^a   Balmer, Dawn E ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG-TERM CHANGE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING;

IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACANTHIS FLAMMEA; AEGITHALIDAE; AVES; CARDUELIS; EMBERIZA; EMBERIZA CITRINELLA; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS; FRINGILLA COELEBS; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PHRAGMITES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; SALIX; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TURDIDAE;

EID: 0031789177     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659809461098     Document Type: Article

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