Response of avian communities to historic habitat change in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

Conservation Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1772-1789

  Pidgeon, A M ^a   Mathews, N E ^a   Benoit, R ^a   Nordheim, E V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; VEGETATION COVER;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BOUTELOUA; BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; GALLIFORMES; PROSOPIS;

EID: 0035674908     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.00073.x     Document Type: Review

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