Landscape-dependent use of a seed-rich habitat by farmland passerines: relative importance of game cover crops in a grassland versus an arable region of Scotland: Capsule Game cover crops in a pastoral region of southwest Scotland supported passerines at more than twice the density found in similar crops in an arable region.

Author： Parish David M. B.   Sotherton Nicolas W.  

Publisher： Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN： 0006-3657

Source： Bird Study, Vol.55, Iss.1, 2008-03, pp. : 118-123

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