Twice-over rotational grazing and its impacts on grassland songbird abundance and habitat structure

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-118

  Ranellucci, Cristina L ^a   Koper, Nicola ^b   Henderson, Darcy C ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

obligate grassland birds; rangeland management; season long grazing; stocking rates

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; LIVESTOCK; NATIVE SPECIES; OVERGRAZING; PRAIRIE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

AMMODRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS; AVES; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS; PASSERI;

EID: 84858969806     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00053.1     Document Type: Article

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