Effects of cattle grazing and fire on the abundance, habitat selection, and nesting success of the Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail (Spartonoica maluroides) in coastal saltmarshes of the pampas region

Condor

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 803-811

  Cardoni, Daniel Augusto ^a   Isacch, Juan Pablo ^a   Iribarne, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Furnariid; Grassland; Nest predation; South America; Spartina densiflora; Spartonoica maluroides

Indexed keywords

AVES; BOS; FURNARIIDAE; SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA; SPARTONOICA MALUROIDES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84870528921     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2012.110186     Document Type: Article

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