Urban and rural habitats differ in number and type of bird feeders and in bird species consuming supplementary food

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 15097-15103

  Tryjanowski, Piotr ^a   Skórka, Piotr ^b   Sparks, Tim H ^a   Biaduń, Waldemar ^c   Brauze, Tomasz ^d   Hetmański, Tomasz ^e   Martyka, Rafał ^a   Indykiewicz, Piotr ^f   Myczko, Łukasz ^a   Kunysz, Przemysław ^g   Kawa, Piotr ^a   Czyż, Stanisław ^h   Czechowski, Paweł ⁱ   Polakowski, Michał ^j   Zduniak, Piotr ^k   Jerzak, Leszek ^l   Janiszewski, Tomasz ^m   Goławski, Artur ⁿ   Duduś, Leszek ^b   Nowakowski, Jacek J ^o   Wuczyński, Andrzej ^b   Wysocki, Dariusz ^p   more..

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^c High School of Civil Sciences   (Poland)

^d NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^g Przemysl Ornithological Society   (Poland)

^h Upper Silesian Museum   (Poland)

ⁱ Institute for Administration and Tourism   (Poland)

^j BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^k ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

ⁿ SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Central Europe; Human support; Human wildlife interaction; Supplemental food; Urban ecosystems; Urbanization; Wintering

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FEEDING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE];

AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIRD; CATERING SERVICE; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84943198209     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4723-0     Document Type: Article

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