Identifying opportunities for conservation embedded in cropland anthromes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1811-1819

  Quinn, John E ^a,c   Johnson, Ron J ^b   Brandle, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Avian; Farmland birds; Heterogeneity; Land sharing and land sparing; Landscape; Novel ecosystem

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84914707940     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0098-8     Document Type: Article

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