Avian communities in Spartina maritima restored and non-restored salt marshes

Bird Study

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 185-194

  Curado, Guillermo ^a   Figueroa, Enrique ^a   Sánchez, Marta I ^b   Castillo, Jesús M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRASS; HABITAT TYPE; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84879560126     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2013.790875     Document Type: Article

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