Nesting success of neotropical migrant songbirds in a highly fragmented landscape

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 338-346

  Friesen, Lyle ^a   Cadman, Michael D ^a   Mackay, R Jock ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NEST PREDATION; PARASITISM;

EID: 0032906475     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.013002338.x     Document Type: Article

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