Farmland as stopover habitat for migrating birds - effects of organic farming and landscape structure

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1114-1125

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

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRANIVORY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MIGRATORY POPULATION; ORGANIC FARMING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOPOVER; TAXONOMY;

EUROPE;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954581910     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18106.x     Document Type: Article

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