Male Kirtland's Warblers' patch-level response to landscape structure during periods of varying population size and habitat amounts

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1093-1101

  Donner, Deahn M ^a   Ribic, Christine A ^b   Probst, John R ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat amount threshold; Habitat loss and fragmentation; Kirtlands Warbler; Landscape ecology; Landscape structure; Population dynamics; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

HABITAT AMOUNT THRESHOLD; HABITAT LOSS AND FRAGMENTATION; KIRTLANDS WARBLER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; OCEAN HABITATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TIMBER;

ECOLOGY;

BIRD; BREEDING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MALE BEHAVIOR; PATCH SIZE; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; BREEDING; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; PINUS BANKSIANA;

DENDROICA KIRTLANDII; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 68949163790     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.05.029     Document Type: Article

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