Winter Responses of Forest Birds to Habitat Corridors and Gaps

Winter Responses of Forest Birds to Habitat Corridors and Gaps

Forest fragmentation and habitat loss may disrupt the movement or dispersal of forest-dwelling birds. Despite much interest in the severity of these effects and ways of mitigating them, little is known about actual movement patterns in different habitat types. We studied the movement of wintering re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Colleen Cassady St. Clair, Marc Bélisle, André Desrochers, Susan Hannon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 1998-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
Black-capped Chickadee
corridor
detour trials
dispersal
Downy Woodpecker
forest fragmentation
gap width
Hairy Woodpecker
movement
<i>Poecile atricapillus</i>
<i>Picoides pubescens</i>
<i>Picoides villosus</i>
<i>Sitta carolinensis</i>
White-breasted Nuthatch.
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol2/iss2/art13/

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