Citizen science in action-Evidence for long-term, region-wide House Sparrow declines in Flanders, Belgium

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 134, Issue , 2015, Pages 139-146

  De Coster, Greet ^a,b   De Laet, Jenny ^a,c   Vangestel, Carl ^a,d   Adriaensen, Frank ^e   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c ABLLO   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Birds; Landscape ecology; Long term ecological monitoring; Passer domesticus; Urbanization; Volunteer surveying

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; ECOLOGY; HOUSES;

ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN REGIONS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PUBLIC AWARENESS; SAMPLING LOCATION; URBANIZATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SEASON; GREENSPACE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DECLINE; SONGBIRD; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84909606923     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.10.020     Document Type: Article

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