The role of extensive cereal crops, dry pasture and shrub-steppe in determining skylark Alauda arvensis densities in the Iberian Peninsula

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 95, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 551-557

  Suárez, Francisco ^a   Garza, Vicente ^b   Morales, Manuel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture intensification; Densities; Dry pasture; Habitat selection; Iberia; Shrub steppes; Skylarks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIRD; HABITAT SELECTION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; PASTURE; POPULATION DENSITY;

PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

ALAUDA; ALAUDA ARVENSIS;

EID: 0242499871     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8809(02)00175-5     Document Type: Article

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