Response of red-cockaded woodpeckers to military training operations

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 177, 2011, Pages 1-38

  Delaney, David K ^a   Pater, Larry L ^a   Carlile, Lawrence D ^b   Spadgenske, Eric W ^b,c   Beaty, Timothy A ^b   Melton, Robert H ^a,d  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b Environmental Division   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^d US Fish and Wildlife Service ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral response; flush; Fort Stewart; Georgia; military training; noise disturbance; Picoides borealis; red cockaded woodpecker; sound recording; video surveillance; woodpecker weighting curve

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PICIDAE; PICOIDES BOREALIS; PICOIDES PUBESCENS;

EID: 79960182727     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/wmon.3     Document Type: Article

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