The role of wildfire, prescribed fire, and mountain pine beetle infestations on the population dynamics of black-backed woodpeckers in the Black Hills, South Dakota

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Rota, Christopher T ^a   Millspaugh, Joshua J ^a   Rumble, Mark A ^b   Lehman, Chad P ^c   Kesler, Dylan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIRD; FEMALE; FIRE; FLEDGLING; FOGO SELVAGEM; GROWTH RATE; MALE; NEST SUCCESS; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PICOIDES ARCTICUS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRESCRIBED FIRE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES INVASION; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH DAKOTA;

EID: 84899713938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094700     Document Type: Article

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