Nesting success of a songbird in a complex floodplain forest landscape in Illinois, USA: Local fragmentation vs. vegetation structure

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 525-537

  Chapa Vargas, Leonardo ^a   Robinson, Scott K ^b  

^a Potosine Institute of Scientific and Technological Research   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acadian Flycatcher; Empidonax virescens; Habitat fragmentation; Illinois; Kaskaskia River Bottoms; Landscape composition; Multiple scale edge effects

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NESTING SUCCESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ILLINOIS; KASKASKIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EMPIDONAX VIRESCENS; PASSERI;

EID: 33746901651     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-2894-7     Document Type: Article

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