Habitat selection by American Redstarts along a successional gradient in northern hardwoods forest: Evaluation of habitat quality

Auk

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 875-888

  Hunt, Peter D ^a,b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; SETOPHAGA; SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA;

EID: 0030456645     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4088865     Document Type: Article

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