Red-cockaded Woodpecker nesting success, forest structure, and southern flying squirrels in Texas

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 697-711

  Conner, Richard N ^a   Rudolph, D Craig ^a   Saenz, Daniel ^a   Schaefer, Richard R ^a  

^a Southern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; PETAURISTINAE; PICIDAE; PICOIDES BOREALIS; PINUS ECHINATA; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PINUS TAEDA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0030448479     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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