Water depth influences nest predation for a wetland-dependent bird in fragmented bottomland forests

Biological Conservation

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-45

  Hoover, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Forested wetlands; Habitat fragmentation; Nest predators; Prothonotary warbler; Water depth

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; WATER DEPTH; WETLAND;

AVES; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; PROTONOTARIA; PROTONOTARIA CITREA; SCIURIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 27644545693     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.07.017     Document Type: Article

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