Breeding Skylarks Alauda arvensis on organic set-asides - Effects of time of cutting, vegetation structure and landscape composition;Effekter av putsningstidpunkt, vegetations struktur och landskapssammansättning på sånglärkor som häckar på ekologiska trädor

Ornis Svecica

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-40

  Berg, Åke ^a   Kvarnbäck, Olle ^b   Gustafsson, Åsa ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Box 412 ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; BREEDING POPULATION; BROOD SIZE; CLEARCUTTING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLEDGING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ALAUDA; ALAUDA ARVENSIS;

EID: 62749179658     PISSN: 11026812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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