Assemblages of breeding birds as indicators of grassland condition

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-270

  Browder, Sharon Freshman ^a   Johnson, Douglas H ^b   Ball, I J ^c  

^a US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grassland birds; North Dakota; Northern Great Plains; Point counts; Prairie Pothole Region

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

BREEDING BIRDS;

ECOLOGY;

AVIFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; BREEDING POPULATION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY;

UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 0141958534     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-160X(02)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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