Wildlife use of mitigation and reference wetlands in West Virginia

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-99

  Balcombe, Collin K ^a,d   Anderson, James T ^a   Fortney, Ronald H ^b   Kordek, Walter S ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

^c West Virginia Division of Natural Resources   (United States)

^d U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anurans; Birds; Frogs; Habitat use; Mitigation; Mitigation success; Mitigation wetland; West Virginia; Wetland dependent species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

ANURAN DENSITIES; MITIGATION; REFERENCE WETLANDS; WILDLIFE;

WETLANDS;

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIBIAN; BIRD; HABITAT USE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANATIDAE; ANURA; AVES;

EID: 20544435986     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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