Habitat requirements of the black woodpecker, dryocopus martius, in hyrcanian forests, iran: (Aves: Picidae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-25

  Khanaposhtani, Maryam Ghadiri ^a   Najafabadi, Mitra Shariati ^a   Kaboli, Mohammad ^a   Farashi, Azita ^a   Spiering, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Buffalo Museum of Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Woodpecker; Habitat requirements; Hyrcanian forest; Snag; Structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; SNAG; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

IRAN;

DRYOCOPUS; DRYOCOPUS MARTIUS;

EID: 84857836478     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2012.10648913     Document Type: Article

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