Implications of rice agriculture for wild birds in China

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue SPEC.ISSUE.1, 2010, Pages 30-43

  Wood, Chris ^a,c   Qiao, Yi ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Ding, Ping ^a   Lu, Baozhong ^b   Xi, Yongmei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaanxi Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve   (China)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

agriculture; agrochemical; pesticides; rice fields; threatened species

Indexed keywords

AGROCHEMICAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FALLOW; FLOODING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; PADDY FIELD; PESTICIDE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RICE; RURAL AREA; SURVEY; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE; WADER; WETLAND; WILD POPULATION;

CHINA;

AVES; BALEARICA PAVONINA; GRUS JAPONENSIS; NIPPONIA NIPPON; ORYZA SATIVA; PLATALEA MINOR;

EID: 78651470675     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.s103     Document Type: Article

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