The size of breeding territory in an urban population of the Blackbird (Turdus merula) in Szczecin (NW Poland)

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Wysocki, Dariusz ^a   Adamowicz, Joanna ^a   Kościów, Robert ^a   Śmietana, Przemysław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TERRITORY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SZCZECIN; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

AVES; TURDUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 2442503417     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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