Associations between distance to forest and spatial and temporal variation in abundance of key peatland breeding bird species

Bird Study

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-64

  Hancock, J Mark H ^a   Grant, Murray C ^a   Wilson, Jeremy D ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAKITE; BIRD; BREEDING; DATA ACQUISITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; PEATLAND; PLANTATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; PLUVIALIS; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA; SALIX; TETRAONIDAE; TRINGA NEBULARIA;

EID: 66249119377     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650802648176     Document Type: Article

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