Specialist response to proportion of arable land and pesticide input in agricultural landscapes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 883-890

  Filippi Codaccioni, Ondine ^a   Devictor, Vincent ^a   Bas, Yves ^a   Clobert, Jean ^b   Julliard, Romain ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

Author keywords

Agricultural practices; Birds; Landscape composition; Spatial autocorrelation; Species Specialisation Index

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ARABLE LAND; AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; FARMING SYSTEM; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; SEINE ET MARNE;

AVES;

EID: 77949267640     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.035     Document Type: Article

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