Visitor patterns on southern heaths: A review of visitor access patterns to heathlands in the UK and the relevance to Annex I bird species

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 112-119

  Underhill Day, John C ^a   Liley, Durwyn ^b  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b Footprint Ecology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HEATHLAND; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; PASSERINE; PUBLIC ACCESS; RURAL AREA; SUBURBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRIMULGUS EUROPAEUS; LULLULA ARBOREA; SYLVIA UNDATA;

EID: 33847374288     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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