Habitat preferences of birds in a montane forest mosaic in the Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon

Ostrich

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-36

  Reif, Jiří ^a   Sedláček, Ondřej ^a   Hořák, David ^a   Riegert, Jan ^b   Pešata, Michal ^b   Hrázský, Záboj ^b,c   Janeček, Štěpán ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CISTICOLA; CISTICOLA CHUBBI; ESTRILDA NONNULA; LANIARIUS ATROFLAVUS; LINURGUS OLIVACEUS; NECTARINIA PREUSSI; SAXICOLA TORQUATA; SERINUS BURTONI;

EID: 34249675904     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.1.5.49     Document Type: Article

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