Close to the edge: Predation risks for two declining farmland passerines

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 168-177

  Morris, Antony J ^a   Gilroy, James J ^b  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alauda arvensis; Arable; Grass margin; Motacilla flava; Skylark; Tramline; Yellow Wagtail

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRASS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MAMMAL; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ALAUDA; ALAUDA ARVENSIS; MAMMALIA; MOTACILLA FLAVA;

EID: 50049085909     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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