Stand selection by birds in Scots pinewoods in Scotland: The need for more old-growth pinewood

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Volumn 149, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 175-182

  Summers, Ron W ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONIFEROUS FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAND STRUCTURE;

ABERNETHY FOREST; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANTHUS TRIVIALIS; AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; DENDROCOPOS MAJOR; LOXIA; PARUS CRISTATUS; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PYRRHULA PYRRHULA; SETOPHAGA; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 36448992312     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00730.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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