Nature reserve selection on forest fragments in a suburban landscape (Rome, central Italy): Indications from a set of avian species

Landscape Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-78

  Lorenzetti, Emanuela ^a   Battisti, Corrado ^a  

^a Environmental Service   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest birds; Habitat fragmentation; Indicator species; Nature reserve design

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURE RESERVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 33847348164     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426390601097719     Document Type: Article

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