Long-term declines and decadal patterns in population trends of songbirds in western North America, 1979-1999

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 737-755

  Ballard, Grant ^a   Geupel, Geoffrey R ^a   Nur, Nadav ^a   Gardali, Thomas ^a  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate regime; Fall migration; Habitat change; Migration monitoring; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Population trend; Songbird declines

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 0242575066     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7131     Document Type: Article

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