A comparison of shrub-dominated and forested habitat use by spring migrating landbirds in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 682-693

  Smith, Robert J ^a   Hatch, Margret I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat use; Landbird; Resources; Spring migration; Stopover

Indexed keywords

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649669775     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8588     Document Type: Article

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