Consequences of organic farming and landscape heterogeneity for species richness and abundance of farmland birds

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1071-1079

  Smith, Henrik G ^a   Dänhardt, Juliana ^a   Lindström, Åke ^a   Rundlöf, Maj ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agri environment schemes; Biodiversity; Farmland birds; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ABUNDANCE; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; ORGANIC FARMING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP; DIET; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH FOOD; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DIET; HEALTH FOOD; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATES; PASSERIFORMES; PESTICIDES; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77949772222     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1588-2     Document Type: Article

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