Amount and type of forest cover and edge are important predictors of golden-cheeked warbler density

Condor

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 659-668

  Peak, Rebecca G ^a   Thompson III, Frank R ^b  

^a U S Army Garrison Fort Hood   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Density; Detection probability; Distance sampling; Habitat variables; Landscape variables; Setophaga chrysoparia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883364431     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2013.120043     Document Type: Article

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