Territorial responses of boreal forest birds to habitat gaps

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 976-980

  Rail, Jean François ^a,c   Darveau, Marcel ^b   Desrochers, André ^b   Huot, Jean ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Can Wildl Serv Québec Reg   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal; Breeding birds; Forest gaps; Forests; Logging; Quebec; Territorial response

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARUS USTULATUS; DENDROICA VIRENS; JUNCO HYEMALIS; REGULUS SATRAPA; SATRAPA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 0030829641     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370150     Document Type: Article

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