Species richness and composition of bird communities in various field margins of Poland

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 202-209

  Wuczyński, Andrzej ^a   Kujawa, Krzysztof ^b   Dajdok, Zygmunt ^c   Grzesiak, Wojciech ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Central Europe; Farmland birds; Field boundaries; Landscape structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BREEDING POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FIELD MARGIN; HERB; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREELINE;

POLAND;

AVES;

EID: 79954628826     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2011.02.031     Document Type: Article

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