Habitat and avifaunal recovery from livestock grazing in riparian meadow system of the northwestern Great Basin

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 209-221

  Dobkin, David S ^a   Rich, Adam C ^a,c   Pyle, William H ^b,d  

^a High Desert Ecological Research Institute   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d Idaho Fishery Resource Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; EXCLOSURE; GRAZING; RESTORATION; RIPARIAN MEADOW;

GREAT BASIN; USA;

AVES; CAREX ADELOSTOMA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GALLIFORMES; RIPARIA;

EID: 0031955837     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96349.x     Document Type: Article

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