Effects of woody vegetation on prairie wetland birds

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 487-492

  Naugle, David E ^a   Higgins, Kenneth F ^b   Nusser, Sarah M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge species; Northern Great Plains; Prairie wetland birds; South Dakota; Wetlands; Woody vegetation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND; WOODY PLANT;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; CHLIDONIAS NIGER; PHALAROPUS TRICOLOR; PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS;

EID: 0033165748     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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