A meta-analysis of bird responses to uniform partial harvesting across North America

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1230-1240

  Vanderwel, Mark C ^a   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Mills, Stephen C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Bird conservation; Forest management; Habitat alteration; Partialharvest silviculture; Tree retention

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HARVESTING; META-ANALYSIS; PASSERINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FORESTRY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FORESTRY; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

AVES; CERTHIA AMERICANA; DENDROICA CORONATA; SEIURUS; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS;

EID: 34648840151     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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