Impacts of oil and gas development on wintering grassland birds at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-320

  Lawson, Ardath L ^a,b   Morrison, Michael L ^a   Douglas Slack, R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; STURNELLA; STURNELLA MAGNA; STURNELLA NEGLECTA;

EID: 79959951739     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/058.010.0210     Document Type: Article

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