Landscape-scale patterns of black-throated sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata) abundance and nest success

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 530-542

  Pidgeon, A M ^a   Radeloff, V C ^a   Mathews, N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Amphispiza bilineata; Black throated Sparrow; Chihuahuan Desert; Ecological trap; Landscape; Nest success; Population sink; Scale; Spatial pattern; Temporal pattern

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

AMPHISPIZA BILINEATA; AVES; BOUTELOUA; BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; GALLIFORMES; JUNIPERUS; LARREA; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; PINUS EDULIS; PROSOPIS;

EID: 0038376942     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0530:LSPOBT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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