Managing the abundance and diversity of breeding bird populations through manipulation of deer populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1161-1170

  McShea, William J ^a   Rappole, John H ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033861632     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99210.x     Document Type: Article

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