Bird communities in traditional wood-pastures with changing management in Eastern Europe

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 385-395

  Hartel, Tibor ^a,b   Hanspach, Jan ^b   Abson, David J ^b   Máthé, Orsolya ^a   Moga, Cosmin Ioan ^c   Fischer, Joern ^b  

^a SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c Ecotransilvania Association   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Dead trees; Grazing; Romania; Scattered trees; Shrub; Traditional cultural landscape

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PYRUS;

EID: 84906944008     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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