Relationships among breeding birds, habitat, and residential development in greater Tucson, Arizona

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 680-691

  Germaine, Stephen S ^a   Rosenstock, Steven S ^a   Schweinsburg, Raymond E ^a   Richardson, W Scott ^a  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Breeding birds; Conservation biology; Habitat remnants; Residential development; Sonoran Desert; Species richness; Vegetation structure and floristics

Indexed keywords

AVES; RIPARIA;

EID: 0031875006     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0680:RABBHA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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