Management by assertion: Beavers and songbirds at Lake Skinner (Riverside County, California)

Environmental Management

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 460-471

  Longcore, Travis ^a   Rich, Catherine ^a   Müller Schwarze, Dietland ^b  

^a The Urban Wildlands Group   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive resource management; Endangered species; Invasive species; Least Bell's vireo; Succession; Tamarisk

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEAST BELL'S VIREO;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DICOTYLEDON; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND MANAGEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; RODENT; SHRUB; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMPIDONAX TRAILLII EXTIMUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HABITAT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT; RESERVOIR; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SONGBIRD; TAMARISK; TAMARIX; UNITED STATES; VIREO BELLII PUSILLUS;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RODENTIA; SONGBIRDS; TAMARICACEAE;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE SKINNER; NORTH AMERICA; RIVERSIDE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTORIDAE; EMPIDONAX TRAILLII; TAMARICACEAE; TAMARIX; VIREO; VIREO BELLII PUSILLUS;

EID: 33947308900     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0204-4     Document Type: Article

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