The winter bird community of river corridors in eastern England in relation to habitat variables

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 73-85

  Mason, Christopher F ^a,b   Hofmann, Tanja A ^a   Macdonald, Sheila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Strome   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT; RIVER CHANNEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CYGNUS OLOR; GALLINULA;

EID: 33746752032     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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