Bird guilds as indicators of ecological condition in the central Appalachians

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1706-1721

  O'Connell, Timothy J ^a   Jackson, Laura E ^b   Brooks, Robert P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Assessment; Biotic integrity; Bird communities; Ecological condition; Indicator; Landscape; Mid Atlantic Highlands; Response guilds

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN DISTURBANCE; UNITED STATES;

AVIFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INDEX METHOD;

(CENTRAL); APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 0033670731     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1706:BGAIOE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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