Effect of adjacent agricultural habitat on the distribution of passerines in natural grasslands

Biological Conservation

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-414

  Brotons, Lluís ^a,b   Wolff, Axel ^c   Paulus, Guillaume ^c   Martin, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Ecomusée de la Crau ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Context; Crau; Habitat conservation; Habitat mosaics; Mediterranean avifauna; Resource complementation; Steppe fragmentation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PASSERINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEPPE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 16844383227     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.01.046     Document Type: Article

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