Relationships between vegetation structure and breeding bird densities in fallow cereal steppes in castro verde, portugal

Bird Study

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-318

  Moreira, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; FALLOW; STEPPE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CASTRO VERDE; PORTUGAL;

BUBULCUS IBIS; CALANDRELLA BRACHYDACTYLA; MELANOCORYPHA CALANDRA; MILIARIA CALANDRA; OTIS TARDA; TETRAX TETRAX;

EID: 0033511063     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659909461144     Document Type: Article

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