Use and importance of crop and field-margin habitats for birds in a Neotropical agricultural ecosystem

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 283-293

  Di Giacomo, Adrián Santiago ^a,b   De Casenave, Javier Lopez ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Aves Argentinas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Bird abundance; Bird richness; Farmland birds; Grasslands; South american agriculture; Soybean

Indexed keywords

AVES; GLYCINE MAX; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 77953416224     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090039     Document Type: Article

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