Grassland bird use of remnant prairie and conservation reserve program fields in an agricultural landscape in wisconsin

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-122

  Ribic, Christine A ^a,c   Guzy, Michael J ^a   Sample, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Bureau of Science Services   (United States)

^c Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIRD; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; NATURE RESERVE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRAIRIE; SPACE USE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

AMMODRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS; AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; DOLICHONYX; DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; GLYCINE MAX; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS; STURNELLA MAGNA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 59249099143     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-161.1.110     Document Type: Article

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