Abundance and productivity of forest songbirds in a managed, unfragmented landscape in Vermont

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 180-188

  Buford, Ernest W ^a   Capen, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood density; Distance sampling; Forest birds; Interior species; Landscape pattern; Neotropical migrants; Productivity; Songbirds; Vermont

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; PRODUCTIVITY;

UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 0033007026     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802499     Document Type: Article

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