Avian community response to vegetation and structural features in grasslands managed with fire and grazing

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1196-1203

  Coppedge, Bryan R ^a   Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Harrell, Wade C ^a   Engle, David M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire; General linear models; Grassland birds; Ponds; Roads; Tallgrass prairie; Woody edge

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; PASTURE; PRAIRIE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 44149114230     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.02.015     Document Type: Article

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