Patterns of area sensitivity in grassland-nesting birds

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1424-1436

  Winter, Maiken ^a,b   Faaborg, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b 611 Winston Court Apartment 4 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NESTING SUCCESS; POPULATION DENSITY;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII; AVES; CUPIDO; GALLUS GALLUS; SPIZA AMERICANA; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO;

EID: 0032715107     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98430.x     Document Type: Article

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