Could soil degradation contribute to farmland bird declines? Links between soil penetrability and the abundance of yellow wagtails Motacilla flava in arable fields

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3116-3126

  Gilroy, James J ^a   Anderson, Guy Q A ^b   Grice, Philip V ^c   Vickery, Juliet A ^d   Bray, Iain ^a   Nicholas Watts, P ^e   Sutherland, William J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^e Vine House Farm   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Distribution modelling; Farmland birds; Habitat associations; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; PASSERINE; PENETRATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MOTACILLA FLAVA;

EID: 55049100925     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.019     Document Type: Article

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