Managing breeding forest songbirds with conspecific song playbacks

Animal Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 436-441

  Hahn, Beth A ^a   Silverman, E D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black throated blue warbler; Conspecific attraction; Forest management; Habitat selection; Inadvertent social information; Social facilitation; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; BREEDING POPULATION; HABITAT SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; PASSERI;

EID: 35648991991     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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