Breeding bird density in woodlots: Effects of depth and buildings at the edges

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 598-611

  Mancke, Ralph G ^a,b   Gavin, Thomas A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird density; Buildings; Depth; Dispersal; Edge species; Forest interior species; Fragmentation; Ovenbird; Pennsylvania; Point counts; Seiurus aurocapillus; Woodlots

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST EDGE; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS;

EID: 0033857668     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0598:BBDIWE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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