Effects of native and non-native grassland plant communities on breeding passerine birds: Implications for restoration of northwest bunchgrass Prairie

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 515-525

  Kennedy, Patricia L ^a   Debano, Sandra J ^b   Bartuszevige, Anne M ^a   Lueders, Andrea S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian reproduction; Grassland birds; Invasive plants; Predation risk; Terrestrial invertebrates

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CLUTCH SIZE; DIETARY SHIFT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEST STRUCTURE; PASSERINE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE; AVES; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 68149178326     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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