Factors ifluencing species richness and community composition of breeding birds in a desert riparian corridor

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-210

  Brand, L Arriana ^a   White, Gary C ^b   Noon, Barry R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Mark recapture; Riparian; San Pedro River; Species richness; Species uniqueness

Indexed keywords

AVES; POPULUS; PROSOPIS; SALIX; TAMARICACEAE; TAMARIX; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 62549137617     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8421     Document Type: Article

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