Predation of artificial ground nests at two types of edges in a forest-dominated landscape

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-24

  Fenske Crawford, Timothy J ^a,b   Niemi, Gerald J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b Natural Resources Research Institute ^*  (United States)

^c Natural Resources Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial nests; birds; camera; edges; forests; fragmentation; Minnesota; predation

Indexed keywords

AVES; CARNIVORA; CAROLINENSIS; CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; COLINUS; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; CRICETINAE; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA; MARTES PENNANTI; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PHASIANIDAE; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0030895891     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370220     Document Type: Article

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