Habitat selection of the globally threatened Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola at the western margin of its breeding range and implications for management

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 347-358

  Tanneberger, Franziska ^a   Flade, Martin ^b   Preiksa, Zydrunas ^c   Schröder, Boris ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Brandenburg State Agency for the Environment   (Germany)

^c VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus paludicola; Fen mires; Land use mosaic; Species distribution model; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

LITHUANIA; POMERANIA;

ACROCEPHALUS PALUDICOLA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 77952531348     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01016.x     Document Type: Article

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