Building for the future: Abandoned beaver ponds promote bird diversity

Ecoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 250-257

  Aznar, Jean Christophe ^a   Desrochers, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beaver pond dynamics; Castor canadensis; Forestry; Logging; Qu bec; Songbirds; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; BIRD; CLEARCUTTING; DECIDUOUS TREE; LOGGING (TIMBER); POND; RIPARIAN ZONE; RODENT; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ALNUS; AVES; CASTOR CANADENSIS; PASSERI;

EID: 48049086119     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/15-2-3107     Document Type: Article

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