Another tool in the toolbox? Using fire and grazing to promote bird diversity in highly fragmented landscapes

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Pillsbury, Finn C ^a   Miller, James R ^b   Debinski, Diane M ^a   Engle, David M ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of similarity; Community structure; Fire; Fragmentation; Grassland birds; Grazing; Heterogeneity; Iowa; Missouri; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855925206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00154.1     Document Type: Article

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