Population trends of birds across the iron curtain: Brain matters

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2524-2533

  Reif, Jiří ^a,b,c   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a,d,e   Flade, Martin ^f   Schwarz, Johannes ^f   Schwager, Monika ^a,e  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^f Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA) eV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Communism; Land use change; Population trend; Socioeconomic development

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRAIN; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COGNITION; COMMUNISM; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CORRELATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DIET; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; POLITICAL CHANGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

CZECH REPUBLIC; GERMANY;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84860388925     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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