Prairie strips as a mechanism to promote land sharing by birds in industrial agricultural landscapes

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 220, Issue , 2016, Pages 55-63

  Schulte, Lisa A ^a   MacDonald, Anna L ^a   Niemi, Jarad B ^b   Helmers, Matthew J ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agribiodiversity; Agriculture; Conservation; Farmland birds; Maize; Soybean; STRIPS

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIODIVERSITY; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MAIZE; PASSERINE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRAIRIE; SOYBEAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATERSHED;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS; GLYCINE MAX; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; TYRANNUS TYRANNUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84954287612     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.01.007     Document Type: Article

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