Does the White Stork Ciconia ciconia reflect farmland bird diversity?

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 222-228

  Tobolka, Marcin ^a   Sparks, Tim H ^a   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^a  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT QUALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRITORY; WADER;

POLAND;

AVES; CICONIA CICONIA;

EID: 84869147279     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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