The response of farmland bird communities to agricultural intensity as influenced by its spatial aggregation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Teillard, Félix ^a   Jiguet, Frédéric ^b   Tichit, Muriel ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CROP PRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GRASSLAND; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AVES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84925729186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119674     Document Type: Article

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