Effects of habitat cover, landscape structure and spatial variables on the abundance of birds in an agricultural-forest mosaic

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 824-835

  Heikkinen, Risto K ^a   Luoto, Miska ^a   Virkkala, Raimo ^a   Rainio, Kalle ^b  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agricultural birds; Bird pairs; Collinearity; Hierarchical partitioning; Semi natural grasslands; Spatial autocorrelation; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AVIFAUNA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT MOSAIC; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 5344262517     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00938.x     Document Type: Article

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