How representative of agricultural practice in Britain are Common Birds Census farmland plots?
Open Access
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Bird Study
- Vol. 32 (1), 56-70
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00063658509476856
Abstract
The Common Birds Census is designed to measure year-to-year changes in bird population levels. But how representative are the sample plots of the country as a whole? What is being measured?This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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