Effects of crop type and aerial invertebrate abundance on foraging barn swallows Hirundo rustica

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 267-273

  Evans, Karl L ^a   Wilson, Jeremy D ^b   Bradbury, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Cereal; Farmland; Grassland management; Hirundo rustica; Invertebrates; Silage

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CEREAL; FIELD; GRASSLAND; INSECTIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; PASTURE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SILAGE; SONGBIRD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34248163830     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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