Beneficial insect borders provide northern bobwhite brood habitat.

Strips of fallow vegetation along cropland borders are an effective strategy for providing brood habitat for declining populations of upland game birds (Order: Galliformes), including northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), but fallow borders lack nectar-producing vegetation needed to sustain many...

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Main Authors: Christopher E Moorman, Charles J Plush, David B Orr, Chris Reberg-Horton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3871610?pdf=render