Sensitivity of breeding birds to the "human footprint" in western Great Lakes forest landscapes

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Gnass Giese, Erin E ^a   Howe, Robert W ^a   Wolf, Amy T ^a   Miller, Nicholas A ^b   Walton, Nicholas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird assemblage; Disturbance gradient; Ecological indicator; Forestry management; Northern mesic forest; Western Great Lakes (USA)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84939159338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00414.1     Document Type: Article

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