Scale-dependent habitat selection by American Redstarts in aspen-dominated forest fragments

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-75

  Sodhi, Navjot S ^a,b   Paszkowski, Cynthia A ^a   Keehn, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; PASSERINE; SCALE EFFECT;

CANADA;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SALIX; SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA;

EID: 0033058952     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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