Short-term effects of fire and other fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a southern appalachian upland hardwood forest

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1906-1916

  Greenberg, Cathryn H ^a   Tomcho, Aimee Livings ^b,e   Lanham, J Drew ^b   Waldrop, Thomas A ^a   Tomcho, Joseph ^c   Phillips, Ross J ^a   Simon, Dean ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

^d North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding birds; Burn; Fire surrogate; Fuel reduction; Prescribed fire; Southern appalachians

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SNAG; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE;

GREEN RIVER GAME LANDS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CONTOPUS VIRENS; HELMITHEROS; HELMITHEROS VERMIVORUS; HEXAPODA; MNIOTILTA; MNIOTILTA VARIA; PASSERINA CYANEA; SIALIA SIALIS; WILSONIA (AVES); WILSONIA CITRINA;

EID: 48249130385     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-070     Document Type: Article

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