Declining woodland birds in North America: Should we blame Bambi?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 481-483

  Chollet, Simon ^a,b   Martin, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Overabundance; Songbirds; Trophic cascades; Understory; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DEER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SONGBIRD; SURVEYING; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PASSERI; UNGULATA;

EID: 84875065856     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12003     Document Type: Article

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