Recent declines in urban Italian Sparrow Passer (domesticus) italiae populations in northern Italy

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 177-181

  Brichetti, Pierandrea ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^a,b   Galeotti, Paolo ^b   Fasola, Mauro ^b  

^a CISO (Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Designatable unit; House Sparrow; Italy; Population decline; SPEC; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DECLINE; SONGBIRD; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSER ITALIAE;

EID: 37849034330     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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