The red-cockaded woodpecker: Interactions with fire, snags, fungi, rat snakes and pileated woodpeckers

Texas Journal of Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 415-426

  Conner, Richard N ^a   Saenz, Daniel ^a   Rudolph, D Craig ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DRYOCOPUS PILEATUS; ELAPHE; ELAPHE SP.; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; PANTHEROPHIS OBSOLETUS; PICOIDES BOREALIS; PINUS ECHINATA; PORODAEDALEA PINI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23944458197     PISSN: 00404403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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