National-scale analyses of habitat associations of Marsh Tits Poecile palustris and Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus: Two species with opposing population trends in Britain

Bird Study

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-43

  Carpenter, Jane ^a   Smart, Jennifer ^b   Amar, Arjun ^b   Gosler, Andrew ^a   Hinsley, Shelley ^c   Charman, Elisabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DEER; FIELDWORK; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODLAND;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

AVES; CERVIDAE; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; PARUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 77749255330     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650903026108     Document Type: Article

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