On the decline of the rusty blackbird and the use of ornithological literature to document long-term population trends

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 553-559

  Greenberg, Russell ^a   Droege, Sam ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EUPHAGUS CAROLENSIS;

EID: 0033062202     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97478.x     Document Type: Article

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