Improvements in the Finnish agri-environment scheme are needed in order to support rich farmland avifauna

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 287-305

  Vepsäläinen, Ville ^a   Tiainen, Juha ^b   Holopainen, Jyrki ^b   Piha, Markus ^a   Seimola, Tuomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ARABLE FARMING; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; ORDINATION; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

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EID: 78649354744     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.047.0501     Document Type: Article

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