Associations between breeding bird abundance and stand structure in the White Mountains, New Hampshire and Maine, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 217-233

  DeGraaf, Richard M ^a   Hestbeck, Jay B ^a   Yamasaki, Mariko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird habitat; Forest birds; Forest cover type and birds; Forest management effects; Forest structure and birds; Timber size class and birds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING BIRD; FOREST STRUCTURE; STAND STRUCTURE;

USA, MAINE, WHITE MOUNTAINS; USA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHITE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0032550304     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00213-2     Document Type: Article

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