Bird communities and habitat as ecological indicators of forest condition in regional monitoring

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 544-558

  Canterbury, Grant E ^a,b   Martin, Thomas E ^a,b   Petit, Daniel R ^b   Petit, Lisa J ^c   Bradford, David F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; HABITAT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AVIFAUNA; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST HEALTH; HABITAT STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034001855     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98235.x     Document Type: Article

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