Which features of UK farmland are important in retaining territories of the rapidly declining Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur ?

Bird Study

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 394-402

  Dunn, Jenny C ^a   Morris, Antony J ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIRD; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEDGEROW; POPULATION DECLINE; SCRUB; TERRITORY; VOLUME;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; STREPTOPELIA; STREPTOPELIA TURTUR; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84869048675     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2012.725710     Document Type: Article

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