Breeding bird dynamics in a primaeval temperate forest: Long-term trends in Bialowieza National Park (Poland)

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 432-453

  Wesołwski, Tomasz ^a   Tomiałojć, Ludnik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS;

BIALOWIEZA NATIONAL PARK; POLAND;

AVES; PHACELIA CONGESTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 1842301078     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00411.x     Document Type: Article

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