Population biology of European woodpecker species: A review

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 96-111

  Pasinelli, Gilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EMIGRATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLEDGING; IMMIGRATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MORTALITY; NESTING SUCCESS; POPULATION SIZE; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

DENDROCOPOS SYRIACUS; PICUS CANUS;

EID: 33646688675     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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