Songbird community composition versus forest rotation age in Saskatchewan boreal mixedwood forest

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-75

  Cumming, Enid E ^a   Diamond, Antony W ^b  

^a University of New Brunswick ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal; Mixedwood forest; Rotation age; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; ROTATION; SONGBIRD;

CANADA;

BLACKBURNIA; CALENDULA; CASTANEA; CATHARUS USTULATUS; COCCOTHRAUSTES VESPERTINUS; DENDROICA CASTANEA; DENDROICA FUSCA; DENDROICA MAGNOLIA; MAGNOLIA; PASSERI; PEREGRINA; PHEUCTICUS LUDOVICIANUS; REGULUS CALENDULA; REGULUS SATRAPA; SATRAPA; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; VERMIVORA PEREGRINA; VIREO; VIREO OLIVACEUS;

EID: 0036461674     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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