Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla in the Mount Lebanon range: Modelling breeding habitat

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Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 324-333

  Knight, Christopher G ^a,c   Beale, Colin M ^b,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b A Rocha Lebanon   (Lebanon)

^c Department of Plant Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; PASSERINE;

ASIA; BEKAA VALLEY; BEQAA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

AVES; CARPOSPIZA BRACHYDACTYLA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 17444398643     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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