Do highways influence density of land birds?

Environmental Management

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 297-302

  Kuitunen, M ^a,b   Rossi, E ^a   Stenroos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bird density; Highways; Infrastructure; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

LAND BIRDS;

ECOSYSTEMS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BIRD COMMUNITY; EDGE EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; ROADSIDE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINLAND; HIGHWAY;

FINLAND;

ANTHUS TRIVIALIS; AVES; LOXIA; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX; TROCHILUS;

EID: 0032030733     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900105     Document Type: Article

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