The Conservation Value of Traditional Rural Landscapes: The Case of Woodpeckers in Transylvania, Romania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Dorresteijn, Ine ^a   Hartel, Tibor ^a,b   Hanspach, Jan ^a   von Wehrden, Henrik ^a   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; ROMANIA; RURAL AREA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION; WOODPECKER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

AVES; PICIDAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 84879210076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065236     Document Type: Article

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