Nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos in scrub habitats in the southern fens off East Anglia, England: Associations with soil type and vegetation structure

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Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 498-511

  Wilson, A M ^a   Fuller, R J ^a   Day, C ^a   Smith, G ^b  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEN; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EAST ANGLIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

EID: 22744444992     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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