Avian community response to southern pine ecosystem restoration for Red-cockaded Woodpeckers

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 324-332

  Conner, Richard N ^a   Shackelford, Clifford E ^a,b   Schaefer, Richard R ^a   Saenz, Daniel ^a   Rudolph, D Craig ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PICIDAE; PICOIDES; PICOIDES BOREALIS; PINUS ECHINATA; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 0036765436     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/0043-5643(2002)114[0324:ACRTSP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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