Fragmentation within and between wetland reserves: The importance of spatial scales for nest predation in reed buntings

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 721-732

  Pasinelli, Gilberto ^a   Schiegg, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WETLAND;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

AVES; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS;

EID: 33750283326     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04728.x     Document Type: Article

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