Population trends of the Finnish starling Sturnus vulgaris, 1952-1998, as inferred from annual ringing totals

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-385

  Rintala, Jukka ^a,b   Tiainen, Juha ^a   Pakkala, Timo ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RINGING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FINLAND;

STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0141460521     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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