Importance of unmanaged wasteland patches for the grey partridge Perdix perdix in suburban habitats

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 23-33

  Šálek, Miroslav ^a   Marhoul, Pavel ^b   Pintíř, Jan ^a   Kopecký, Tomáš ^a   Slabý, Lukáš ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Food availability; Fragmented landscape; High density population; Idle habitats; Landscape diversity; Weed seeds

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; POPULATION SIZE; SUBURBAN AREA; VEGETATION COVER; WASTELAND; WEED;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; PRAGUE;

AVES; PERDIX; PERDIX PERDIX;

EID: 1542379707     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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