The effect of vegetation management on breeding bird communities in British Columbia

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1092-1103

  Easton, Wendy E ^a   Martin, Kathy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird community; Diversity; Evenness; Forest management; Glyphosate; Guilds; Habitat heterogeneity; Nest predation; Pacific Northwest; Silviculture; Vegetation management; Vireo gilvus

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; VIREO GILVUS; VIREONIDAE;

EID: 0031787924     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[1092:TEOVMO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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