Ground-dwelling birds near the Qinghai-Tibet highway and railway

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 525-528

  Li, Zhongqiu ^a   Ge, Chen ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Li, Yankuo ^b   Xu, Aichun ^c   Zhou, Kexin ^d   Xue, Dayuan ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese JiLiang University   (China)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bird diversity; Road ecology; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BUILDINGS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; HOUSING; RAILROADS;

BIRD DIVERSITY; BIRD RICHNESS; QINGHAI-TIBET HIGHWAYS; ROAD ECOLOGY; TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

TRANSPORTATION;

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; HABITAT TYPE; RAILWAY; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; QINGHAI; XIZANG;

AVES; MONTIFRINGILLA RUFICOLLIS;

EID: 77955924878     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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