Latency in response of barn swallow Hirundo rustica populations to changes in breeding habitat conditions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 640-647

  Ambrosini, Roberto ^a   Bolzern, Anna Maria ^a   Canova, Luca ^b   Saino, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundance; Breeding ecology; Conservation; Distribution; Hirundo rustica; Historical data; Latency; Livestock farming; Population trends

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0036741301     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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