Linking grassland management, invertebrates and Northern Lapwing productivity.

• Main Author: McKeever, Claire U
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Stirling 2003
• Subjects: Grassland ecology; Vanellus vanellus; Islay (Scotland); Birds Effect of habit modification on; Islay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30781; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/30781/1/13916328.pdf

Numbers of lapwings (Vanellus vanellus) breeding in Britain and Ireland have declined over the last 20 years. It has been suggested that intensification of agricultural practices has contributed to the decline by reducing food abundance and availability and the suitability of nesting and chick reari...