Sustainable Arable Farming for an Improved Environment (SAFFIE): Managing winter wheat sward structure for Skylarks Alauda arvensis

Ibis

Volumn 146, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages 155-162

  Morris, Antony J ^a   Holland, John M ^b   Smith, Barbara ^b   Jones, Naomi E ^c  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; SOWING DATE; WHEAT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ALAUDA; ALAUDA ARVENSIS; INVERTEBRATA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 5344261486     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2004.00361.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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