Abundance patterns of landbirds in restored and remnant riparian forests on the Sacramento River, California, U.S.A.

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-403

  Gardali, Thomas ^a   Holmes, Aaron L ^a   Small, Stacy L ^b   Nur, Nadav ^a   Geupel, Geoffrey R ^a   Golet, Gregory H ^c  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; California; Central valley; Indicator; Monitoring; Restoration; Riparian; Sacramento river

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERINA AMOENA;

EID: 33747443558     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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