Effects of prairie fragmentation on the nest success of breeding birds in the midcontinental United States

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 587-594

  Herkert, James R ^a,h   Reinking, Dan L ^b   Wiedenfeld, David A ^b   Winter, Maiken ^c   Zimmerman, John L ^d   Jensen, William E ^e   Finck, Elmer J ^e   Koford, Rolf R ^f   Wolfe, Donald H ^b   Sherrod, Steve K ^b   Jenkins, M Alan ^b   Faaborg, John ^c   Robinson, Scott K ^g  

^a IL Endangered Species Protect Board   (United States)

^b Sutton Avian Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; NEST PREDATION; PATCH SIZE; PRAIRIE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

UNITED STATES;

AMMODRAMUS; AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII; AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; MOLOTHRUS ATER; SPIZA AMERICANA; STURNELLA MAGNA;

EID: 0043241945     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01418.x     Document Type: Article

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