Effects of growth stage and tree species composition on breeding bird assemblages of plantation forests

Bird Study

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-236

  Wilson, Mark W ^a   Pithon, Josephine ^a   Gittings, Tom ^a   Kelly, Tom C ^a   Giller, Paul S ^a   O'Halloran, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST EDGE; GROWTH RATE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 33750866977     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650609461437     Document Type: Review

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