Birds and people in Europe

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1548, 2004, Pages 1649-1655

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Evans, Karl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Body size; Europe; Humans; More individuals hypothesis; Population density

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; EUROPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 3442897998     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2782     Document Type: Article

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