Potential Effects of Passenger Pigeon Flocks on the Structure and Composition of Presettlement Forests of Eastern North America

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1548-1558

  Ellsworth, Joshua W ^a,b   McComb, Brenda C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Natl Hlth Environ Effects Res L ^*  (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PASSERINE;

NORTH AMERICA;

COLUMBA; ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS; PASSERIFORMES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0346343419     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00230.x     Document Type: Review

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