Efficiency of buffer zones around ponds to conserve odonates and songbirds in mined peat bogs

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 913-920

  Bonifait, Sylvain ^a   Villard, Marc André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUFFER ZONE; DATA SET; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INSECT; ISOLATION EFFECT; MATING BEHAVIOR; MINING; PEATLAND; POND; SONGBIRD; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 78049440291     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06088.x     Document Type: Article

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