Assessing Regional and Interspecific Variation in Threshold Responses of Forest Breeding Birds through Broad Scale Analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  van der Hoek, Yntze ^a   Renfrew, Rosalind ^b   Manne, Lisa L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Vermont Center for Ecostudies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; VERMONT;

EID: 84873573488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055996     Document Type: Article

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