Collision mortality has no discernible effect on population trends of North American birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Arnold, Todd W ^a   Zink, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

AVES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 80052586470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024708     Document Type: Article

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