Vegetation and songbird response to land abandonment: From landscape to census plot

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-52

  Sirami, Clélia ^a   Brotons, Lluis ^a,b   Martin, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bird; Land abandonment; Landscape; Mediterranean; Scale

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CENSUS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AVES; HIPPOLAIS POLYGLOTTA; PASSERI;

EID: 33846050848     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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