Abundance patterns of European breeding birds

Ecography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 201-208

  Gregory, Richard D ^a,b  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; POPULATION SIZE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0034103420     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00276.x     Document Type: Article

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