Nesting success of a disturbance-dependent songbird on different kinds of edges

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 928-935

  Suarez, Andrew V ^a   Pfennig, Karin S ^a   Robinson, Scott K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD; EDGE HABITAT; INDIGO BUNTING; NEST PREDATION; NESTING SUCCESS;

USA, ILLINOIS;

AVES; INDIGOFERA; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PASSERI; PASSERINA CYANEA;

EID: 0030877629     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96063.x     Document Type: Article

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