Home range size of black-backed woodpeckers in burned forests of southwestern Idaho

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 593-600

  Dudley, Jonathan G ^a   Saab, Victoria A ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Black backed Woodpecker; Coniferous forest; Douglas fir; Fixed kernel method; Home range; Minimum convex polygon method; Picoides arcticus; Ponderosa pine; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

PICOIDES ARCTICUS; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 38549174717     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904(2007)67[593:HRSOBW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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