Partitioning the effects of livestock farming on the diet of an aerial insectivorous passerine, the barn swallow hirundo rustica

Bird Study

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-123

  Orłowski, Grzegorz ^a   Karg, Jerzy ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CATTLE; COLONY; DIET; INSECT; INSECTIVORE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NESTLING; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOS; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; HYMENOPTERA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; SUIDAE;

EID: 84873671940     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2012.748717     Document Type: Article

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