Bird and mammal diversity on woody biomass plantations in North America

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-402

  Christian, Donald P ^a   Hoffman, Wayne ^b   Hanowski, Joann M ^a   Niemi, Gerald J ^a   Beyea, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomass plantations; Birds; Habitat studies; Hybrid cottonwood; Hybrid poplar; North America; Populus; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIRD; DENSITY; HABITAT; HETEROGENEITY; MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITISM; PLANTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDATION; SPECIES;

COTTON; CROPS; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOMASS;

BIRD; COTTONWOOD; PLANTATION; POPLAR; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

POPULUS;

EID: 0031867502     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0961-9534(97)10076-9     Document Type: Article

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