Combining habitat loss and agricultural intensification improves our understanding of drivers of change in avian abundance in a North American cropland anthrome

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 803-814

  Quinn, John E ^a   Awada, Tala ^a   Trindade, Federico ^b,c   Fulginiti, Lilyan ^b   Perrin, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural expansion; anthromes; avian; biomass; grassland birds; land sharing and land sparing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007552110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2670     Document Type: Article

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