Breeding bird response to long-term wastewater discharge in a northern Michigan peatland

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1357-1365

  Monfils, Michael J ^a   Prince, Harold H ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Cattail; Diversity; Species richness; Treatment wetlands; Wet meadow

Indexed keywords

CATTAIL; DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREATMENT WETLANDS; WET MEADOW;

WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WETLANDS;

BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; MEADOW; PEATLAND; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; SCRUB; SHRUB; SONGBIRD; SPECIES RICHNESS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

HOUGHTON LAKE; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AGELAIUS; AMMODRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS; ANAS CRECCA; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; CIRCUS CYANEUS; CISTOTHORUS; CISTOTHORUS PLATENSIS; MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; PORZANA; QUISCALUS QUISCULA; RALLUS LIMICOLA; TYPHA; VIBURNUM RHYTIDOPHYLLUM;

EID: 67650435791     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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