Effects of silvicultural modifications of temperate rainforest on breeding and wintering bird communities, Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 706-721

  Dellasala, Dominick A ^a,d   Hagar, Joan C ^b   Engel, Kathleen A ^a   Mccomb, William C ^b,e   Fairbanks, Randal L ^a   Campbell, Ellen G ^c  

^a Foster Wheeler Environ Corporation   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding birds; canopy gaps; old growth; precommercial thinning; southeast Alaska; temperate rainforest; wintering birds; young growth

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 0030465636     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369853     Document Type: Article

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