The benefits of unsprayed cereal crop margins to grey partridges Perdix perdix and pheasants Phasianus colchicus in Sweden

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-92

  Chiverton, Philip A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chick survival; Grey partridges; Insects; Pesticides; Pheasants; Weeds

Indexed keywords

PERDIX PERDIX; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 0033045084     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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