Common montane birds are declining in northern Europe

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-14

  Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^a   Green, Martin ^b   Husby, Magne ^c   Kålås, John Atle ^d   Lindström, Åke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE EXPANSION; SAMPLING;

FINLAND; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 84892500144     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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