Boreal forest songbird communities of the Liard Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-44

  Machtans, Craig S ^a   Latour, Paul B ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Community; Mixedwood; Northwest Territories; Ordination; Songbird; Succession

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARUS USTULATUS; DENDROICA CORONATA; DENDROICA MAGNOLIA; MAGNOLIA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PEREGRINA; SPIZELLA PASSERINA; VERMIVORA PEREGRINA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 0037327110     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2003)105[27:BFSCOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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