Shifting cultivation along the Trans-African Highway and its impact on the understorey bird community in the Ituri Forest, Zaire

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 317-329

  Plumptre, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GILBERTIODENDRON; OKAPIA JOHNSTONI; TURDIDAE; ZOOTHERA;

BIRD COMMUNITY; FOREST BIRD; FOREST ROAD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

CONGO, ITURI FOREST;

EID: 0031418728     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270900001659     Document Type: Article

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