Response of avian communities to disturbance by an exotic insect in spruce-fir forests of the Southern Appalachians

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 177-189

  Rabenold, Kerry N ^a   Fauth, Peter T ^a   Goodner, Bradley W ^a   Sadowski, Jennifer A ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; DISTURBANCE; FOREST; INTRODUCED INSECT;

USA, APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS;

ABIES FRASERI; ADELGES PICEAE; ADELIGAE; HOMOPTERA;

EID: 0031959307     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96085.x     Document Type: Article

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