Depredation of artificial bird nests along roads, rivers, and lakes in a boreal Balsam Fir, Abies balsamea, forest

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-88

  Boulet, Marylène ^a,b   Darveau, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

American Crow; Artificial nests; Corvus brachyrhynchos; Edge type; Forest fragmentation; Mustelids; Nest predation; Quebec; Red Squirrel; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD SOURCE; FOREST; NEST; PREDATION;

ECOTONE; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEST PREDATION;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; AVES; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; COTURNIX; COTURNIX COTURNIX; MUSTELIDAE; PHASIANIDAE; RIPARIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 0034008687     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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