Agricultural intensification and farmland birds: New insights from a central European country

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 596-605

  Reif, Jiří ^a   Voříšek, Petr ^b   Šťastný, Karel ^c   Bejček, Vladimír ^c   Petr, Jiří ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Pan European Common Bird Monitoring   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bird monitoring scheme; Habitat loss; Habitat specialization; Landscape change; Population trend

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIALIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ALAUDA ARVENSIS; AVES; CARDUELIS CANNABINA; EMBERIZA CITRINELLA; VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 51349157693     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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