Avian use of suburban greenways as stopover habitat

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 487-502

  Kohut, Salina M ^b   Hess, George R ^a   Moorman, Christopher E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenways; Migration; Neotropical migrants; Stopover; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 70350418426     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-009-0099-6     Document Type: Article

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