Use of pine snags by birds in different stand types of Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris

Bird Study

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 212-221

  Summers, Ron W ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; HABITAT USE; NEST SITE; PLANTATION; SNAG;

ABERNETHY FOREST; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; APUS APUS; AVES; DENDROCOPOS; DENDROCOPOS MAJOR; FALCO; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; JYNX; JYNX TORQUILLA; PARUS; PARUS CRISTATUS; PHOENICURUS; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; PICIDAE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO;

EID: 7944238479     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650409461356     Document Type: Article

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