Effects of vegetation, corridor width and regional land use on early successional birds on powerline corridors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Askins, Robert A ^a   Folsom O'Keefe, Corrine M ^a,b   Hardy, Margaret C ^a,c  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

^b National Audubon Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD DISEASE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; COWBIRD; DENDROICA DISCOLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; HABITAT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITISM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POWERLINE RIGHTS OF WAY; SCRUB; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPIZELLA PUSILLA; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POWER SUPPLY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONNECTICUT; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84857392605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031520     Document Type: Article

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