Effects of Exotic Habitat on Nesting Success, Territory Density, and Settlement Patterns in the Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1127-1133

  Reměs, Vladimír ^a,b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; NESTING; POPULATION DENSITY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; SYLVIA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 0345448759     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01611.x     Document Type: Article

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