Off-highway vehicle trail impacts on breeding songbirds in northeastern California

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1617-1620

  Barton, Daniel C ^a,b   Holmes, Aaron L ^a,c  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Off highway vehicle impacts; Road effects; Shrubsteppe songbirds; Songbird abundance; Songbird nesting success; Trail effects

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BREEDING POPULATION; NESTING SUCCESS; SONGBIRD;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 48249148122     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-026     Document Type: Article

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