Fragmentation effects on forest birds: Relative influence of woodland cover and configuration on landscape occupancy

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 774-783

  Villard, Marc André ^a   Kurtis Trzcinski, M ^a,c   Merriam, Gray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRAGMENTATION;

CANADA;

AVES; CAROLINENSIS; CERTHIA AMERICANA; PICOIDES PUBESCENS; SITTA CAROLINENSIS;

EID: 0344246930     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98059.x     Document Type: Article

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