Wood thrush population sinks and implications for the scale of regional conservation strategies

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 576-585

  Trine, Cheryl L ^a,b  

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

^b ANDREWS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CONSERVATION STRATEGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEST PREDATION; SOURCE-SINK POPULATION; WOOD THRUSH;

USA, ILLINOIS, SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST;

AVES; HYLOCHICHLA; HYLOCHICHLA MUSTELINA; HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; TURDIDAE;

EID: 0031832838     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96161.x     Document Type: Article

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