The role of habitat composition in determining breeding site occupancy in a declining Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus population

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Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 374-385

  Sim, Innes M W ^a   Burfield, Ian J ^b,c   Grant, Murray C ^a   Pearce Higgins, James W ^a   Brooke, M De L ^b  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BirdLife International   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BREEDING SITE; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; LANDSAT; POPULATION DECLINE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SITE FIDELITY; SONGBIRD; VEGETATION COVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CALLUNA; TURDUS TORQUATUS;

EID: 34047151840     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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