Changes in breeding bird richness and abundance in Montreal parks over a period of 15 years

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 111-121

  Morneau, François ^a   Décarie, Robert ^a   Pelletier, Richard ^a   Lambert, Daniel ^a   DesGranges, Jean Luc ^b   Savard, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird richness; Breeding abundance; Quebec; Redundancy analysis; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC;

CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS;

EID: 0345535837     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00002-X     Document Type: Article

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