Avian response to wildfire in interior Columbia basin shrubsteppe

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 370-376

  Earnst, Susan L ^a   Newsome, Heidi L ^b   LaFramboise, William L ^b   LaFramboise, Nancy ^b  

^a FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Mid Columbia River National Wildlife Refuge Complex   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphispiza belli; Cheatgrass; Fire; Pooecetes gramineus; Sage Sparrow; Sagebrush; Shrubsteppe birds; Vesper Sparrow

Indexed keywords

AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AMPHISPIZA BELLI; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; AVES; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; CHONDESTES; CHONDESTES GRAMMACUS; EREMOPHILA (ANGIOSPERM); EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS; POOECETES; POOECETES GRAMINEUS; STURNELLA NEGLECTA;

EID: 67650296710     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.080109     Document Type: Article

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