Distribution and abundance patterns of a newly colonizing species in Tunisian oases: The Common Blackbird Turdus merula

Ibis

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 681-688

  Selmi, Slaheddine ^a   Boulinier, Thierry ^b   Faivre, Bruno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; OASIS; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

TUNISIA;

PASSERIFORMES; TURDUS MERULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142155015     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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