Restoring savanna using fire: Impact on the breeding bird community

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 30-40

  Davis, Mark A ^a   Peterson, David W ^b   Reich, Peter B ^b   Crozier, Michelle ^a   Query, Toby ^a   Mitchell, Eliot ^a   Huntington, Josh ^a   Bazakas, Paul ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird communities; Bird foraging guilds; Fire; Oaks; Restoration ecology; Savanna

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA;

AVES; CARDUELIS TRISTIS; CHONDESTES GRAMMACUS; GALLIFORMES; ICTERUS GALBULA; MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PICIDAE; POOECETES GRAMINEUS; QUERCUS; SPIZELLA PUSILLA; TOXOSTOMA RUFUM; TYRANNUS TYRANNUS;

EID: 0034063485     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2000.80005.x     Document Type: Article

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