Declines in abundance and species richness of birds following a major flood on the Upper Mississippi River

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 367-380

  Knutson, Melinda G ^a,b   Klaas, Erwin E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; PROTONOTARIA; PROTONOTARIA CITREA; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0030744607     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089239     Document Type: Article

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