Active or Passive Forest Restoration? Assessing Restoration Alternatives with Avian Foraging Behavior

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 201, 2011, Pages 170-177

  Morrison, Emily B ^a   Lindell, Catherine A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack rate; Neotropical birds; Restoration ecology; Search effort

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EPIDEMIC; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT RESTORATION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; COSTA (OSTRACODE);

EID: 79952205881     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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