Edge avoidance by nesting grassland birds: A futile strategy in a fragmented landscape

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 618-636

  Renfrew, Rosalind B ^a,b   Ribic, Christine A ^a   Nack, Jamie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Box 532   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge; Fragmentation; Grassland birds; Grazing; Nest density; Nest predation; Pasture; Predators

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; AVOIDANCE REACTION; EDGE EFFECT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; NEST PREDATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WISCONSIN; WORLD;

AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; BOS TAURUS; DOLICHONYX; DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; MAMMALIA; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; PROCYON LOTOR; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS; STURNELLA;

EID: 18744401943     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0618:EABNGB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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