Using canopy and understory mist nets and point counts to study bird assemblages in chaco forests

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-99

  Derlindati, Enrique J ^a   Caziani, Sandra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST; SAMPLING;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; CHACO;

EID: 17844380534     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/03-063     Document Type: Article

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