Trends in the abundance of farmland birds: A quantitative comparison of smoothed Common Birds Census indices

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-43

  Siriwardena, Gavin M ^a,b   Baillie, Stephen R ^a   Buckland, Stephen T ^c   Fewster, Rachel M ^c   Marchant, John H ^a   Wilson, Jeremy D ^b  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bird populations; Conservation; Environmental change; Turning points

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION; FARMLAND; POPULATION DECLINE;

UK;

EID: 0031980504     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.1998.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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