Winter avian community and sparrow response to field border width

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1917-1923

  Conover, Ross R ^a,c   Burger Jr , L Wes ^b   Linder, Eric T ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation buffer; CP33; Farmland birds; Field border; Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds; Mississippi Alluvial Valley; National Conservation Buffer Initiative; Wintering sparrows

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WINTER;

AVES; EMBERIZINAE; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 48249139796     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-119     Document Type: Article

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