Impacts of housing developments on wood thrush nesting success in hardwood forest fragments

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 97-106

  Phillips, Judith ^a   Nol, Erica ^a   Burke, Dawn ^b   Dunford, Wendy ^c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Brood parasitism; Forest fragmentation; Housing development; Nest predation; Ontario; Wood Thrush

Indexed keywords

HYLOCHICHLA; HYLOCHICHLA MUSTELINA; HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; TURDIDAE;

EID: 13844256469     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7560     Document Type: Article

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