Effects of commercial thinning on breeding bird populations in western hemlock forests

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 225-232

  Artman, Vanessa L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; THINNING;

AVES; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; JUNCO; JUNCO HYEMALIS; PARIDAE; PARUS; PARUS RUFESCENS; POACEAE; SITTA; SITTA CANADENSIS; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 0037230831     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)149[0225:EOCTOB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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