Bird communities in riparian buffer strips of industrial forests

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 172-184

  Meiklejohn, Bradford A ^a,b   Hughes, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Conservation Fund ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; HABITAT USE; RIPARIAN ZONE;

AVES; BLACKBURNIA; CYANOCITTA CRISTATA; DENDROICA TIGRINA; DENDROICA VIRENS; RIPARIA;

EID: 0032930492     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)141[0172:BCIRBS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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