Habitat and landscape characteristics affecting the occurrence of ural owls strix uralensis in an agroforestry mosaic

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-42

  Bylicka, Marta ^a   Kajtoch, Łukasz ^b   Figarski, Tomasz ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^c NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carpathians; foothills; forest; fragmentation; Ural Owl

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION GROWTH; RAPTOR; SUBSPECIES;

CARPATHIANS; POLAND;

AVES; FAGUS; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX URALENSIS;

EID: 77955637292     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/000164510X516065     Document Type: Article

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