Bird communities of northern forests: Patterns of diversity and abundance

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 337-349

  Willson, Mary F ^a   Comet, Tallchief A ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska, Yukon; bird community; boreal forest; British Columbia; habitat breadth; habitat shifts; relative abundance; riparian forest; Species diversity; temperate rainforest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029840326     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369152     Document Type: Article

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