Ecological strategies successfully predict the effects of river floodplain rehabilitation on breeding birds

River Research and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-282

  Van Turnhout, C A M ^a,b   Leuven, R S E W ^b   Hendriks, A J ^b   Kurstjens, G ^c   van Strien, A ^d   Foppen, R P B ^a   Siepel, H ^b,e  

^a SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^d STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological traits; Life history; Monitoring; Population trend; Restoration; River Meuse; River Rhine; River specialists

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLOODPLAIN; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RIVER; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA;

AVES;

EID: 80053247816     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1455     Document Type: Article

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