The importance of breeding groups for territory occupancy in a declining population of a farmland passerine bird

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-19

  Vepsäläinen, Ville ^a   Pakkala, Timo ^a   Piha, Markus ^a   Tiainen, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERRITORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; EMBERIZA HORTULANA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 34247104207     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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