Grazing effects on between-year variation of farmland bird communities

Ecological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1141-1150

  Soderstrom B ^a   Part T ^a   Linnarsson, E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Farmland bird communities; Functional groups; Grazing pressure; Habitat loss; Insect abundance; Seminatural pastures; Sweden; Temporal variability; Turnover

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL VARIATION; AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRAZING;

EUROPE;

EID: 0034910565     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[1141:GEOBYV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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