Linking weather and habitat to population dynamics of a migratory farmland songbird

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-34

  Piha, Markus ^a   Lindén, Andreas ^b   Pakkala, Timo ^a   Tiainen, Juha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; HABITAT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RAINFALL; SONGBIRD; WEATHER;

ALAUDA ARVENSIS; AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 34247166323     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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