Water level decrease and its effects on the breeding bird community in a remnant wetland in Central Italy

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-263

  Battisti, Corrado ^a   Aglitti, Cristina ^a   Sorace, Alberto ^b   Trotta, Marco ^c  

^a Environmental Service   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c c/o Lynx ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Breeding birds; Habitat fragmentation; Rainfall; Reedbed; Remnant wetlands; Water level oscillations

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAPPING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES;

EID: 33750012981     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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