What attracts birds to newly mown pasture? Decoupling the action of mowing from the provision of short swards

Ibis

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 302-306

  Devereux, Claire L ^a   Whittingham, Mark J ^a,b   Krebs, John R ^a   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^c   Vickery, Juliet A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FORAGE; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; INVERTEBRATE; MICROCLIMATE; MOWING; PASTURE; PREY LOCATION; SPECIES FLOCK; SWARD;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 33645882497     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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