Population crash of the ortolan bunting Emberiza hortulana in agricultural landscapes of southern Finland

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-107

  Vepsäläinen, Ville ^a   Pakkala, Timo ^a   Piha, Markus ^a   Tiainen, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

AVES; EMBERIZA HORTULANA;

EID: 18744369102     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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