Effects of forest fragmentation on breeding tanagers: A continental perspective

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 568-583

  Rosenberg, Kenneth V ^a   Lowe, James D ^a   Dhondt, André A ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PASSERINE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033061736     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98020.x     Document Type: Article

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