The 37-year dynamics of a subalpine passerine bird community, with special emphasis on the influence of environmental temperature and Epirrita autumnata cycles;Småfågelsamhällets sammansättning och beståndsväxlingar under 37 år i ett område fjällbjörkskog i Lappland, med särskild hänsyn till inverkan av temperaturen och förekomsten av fjällbjörkmatarlarver

Ornis Svecica

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 63-106

  Enemar, Anders ^a   Sjöstrand, Bengt ^b   Andersson, Göran ^c   von Proschwitz, Ted ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Natural History Museum Göteborg ^*  (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; PASSERINE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LAPLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

AVES; EPIRRITA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA MONTIFRINGILLA; MONTIFRINGILLA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; TROCHILUS;

EID: 5544317496     PISSN: 11026812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.34080/os.v14.20236     Document Type: Article

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