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8 - Temperate Forests

A European Perspective on Variation and Dynamics in Bird Assemblages

from Part II - European Forests and Their Bird Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2018

By
Tomasz Wesołowski ,
Robert J. Fuller  and
Martin Flade
Edited by
Grzegorz Mikusiński ,
Jean-Michel Roberge  and
Robert J. Fuller
Grzegorz Mikusiński
Affiliation:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jean-Michel Roberge
Affiliation:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Robert J. Fuller
Affiliation:
British Trust for Ornithology, Norfolk
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Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds , pp. 253 - 317
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