Modelling the European Farmland Bird Indicator in response to forecast land-use change in Europe

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-51

  Scholefield, Paul ^a   Firbank, Les ^b   Butler, Simon ^c   Norris, Ken ^c   Jones, Laurence M ^d   Petit, Sandrine ^e  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b North Wyke Research   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bird populations; Environmental change; Population trends

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; BIRDS; FARMS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIRD POPULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL SCALE; MODELLING METHOD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; POPULATION TRENDS; PREDICTIVE VARIABLES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIRD; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

NORWAY; SWITZERLAND;

AVES;

EID: 79954428366     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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