Habitat type, food resources, noise and light pollution explain the species composition, abundance and stability of a winter bird assemblage in an urban environment

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 547-559

  Ciach, Michał ^a   Fröhlich, Arkadiusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fauna homogenization; Species diversity; Urban ecology; Urban effect; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996486835     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-016-0613-6     Document Type: Article

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