Tolerance to noise in 91 bird species from 27 urban gardens of Iberian Peninsula

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Patón, Daniel ^a   Romero, Francisco ^a   Cuenca, Javier ^a   Escudero, Jose Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birds; Noise; Spain; Tolerance; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; RURAL AREAS; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES;

ACOUSTIC BARRIERS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NOISE; NOISE CONDITIONS; SPAIN; SW IBERIAN PENINSULA; URBAN AREAS;

CONSERVATION;

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GARDEN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; NOISE POLLUTION; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

AVES; BUTEO BUTEO; CETTIA CETTI; CORVUS CORAX; DENDROCOPOS MINOR; HIRUNDO DAURICA; ORIOLUS ORIOLUS; PASSER; REGULUS REGULUS; STREPTOPELIA TURTUR; SYLVIA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 81455131457     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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