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Abundance of arthropods as food for meadow bird chicks in response to short- and long-term soil wetting in Dutch dairy grasslands

BACKGROUND: Throughout the world, intensive dairy farming has resulted in grasslands almost devoid of arthropods and birds. Meadow birds appear to be especially vulnerable during the chick-rearing period. So far, studies have focused mainly on describing population declines, but solutions to effecti...

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Autores principales: De Felici, Livia, Piersma, Theunis, Howison, Ruth A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565546
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7401