Patches of bare ground as a staple commodity for declining ground-foraging insectivorous farmland birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Schaub, Michael ^a,b   Martinez, Nicolas ^b   Tagmann Ioset, Aline ^a   Weisshaupt, Nadja ^a   Maurer, Melanie L ^a   Reichlin, Thomas S ^a,b   Abadi, Fitsum ^a   Zbinden, Niklaus ^b   Jenni, Lukas ^b   Arlettaz, Raphaë L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BIRD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; HABITAT SELECTION; INSECTIVORE; NONHUMAN; ORCHARD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; VEGETATION; VINEYARD; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; UPUPIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS;

EID: 78049279798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013115     Document Type: Article

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