Indexing long-term regional bird population dynamics with nestling ringing data

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-140

  Rintala, Jukka ^a,b   Tiainen, Juha ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NESTLING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; REGIONAL PATTERN; RESOURCE SELECTION; RINGING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 34249710373     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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