Winter responses of forest birds to habitat corridors and gaps

Ecology and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  St Clair, Colleen Cassady ^a,b   Bélisle, Marc ^b   Desrochers, André ^b   Hannon, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black capped Chickadee; Corridor; Detour trials; Dispersal; Downy Woodpecker; Forest fragmentation; Gap width; Hairy Woodpecker; Movement; Picoides pubescens; Picoides villosus; Poecile atricapillus; Sitta carolinensis; White breasted Nuthatch

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249141118     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00068-020213     Document Type: Article

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