Nesting ecology of Townsend's warblers in relation to habitat characteristics in a mature boreal forest

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 271-281

  Matsuoka, Steven M ^a,b   Handel, Colleen M ^b   Roby, Daniel D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; bird blow flies; Dendroica townsendi; habitat; nest succes; nesting ecology; predation; Protocalliphora; Townsend's Warbler

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; DENDROICA TOWNSENDI; PICEA GLAUCA; PROTOCALLIPHORA;

EID: 0030916880     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369933     Document Type: Article

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