Assessing habitat quality of farm-dwelling house sparrows in different agricultural landscapes

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 959-966

  von Post, Maria ^a   Borgström, Pernilla ^a   Smith, Henrik G ^a   Olsson, Ola ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conservation; Foraging; Giving up density; GUD; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING SEASON; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MIXED FARMING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION RISK; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPARROW; SWEDEN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPARROWS; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84858008434     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2169-8     Document Type: Article

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