Restoring North America's birds lessons from landscape ecology /

The decline of bird species in a wide range of North American habitats-forests, prairies, shrublands, mountain regions, marshes, and deserts-has inspired two decades of intense scientific study of bird ecology and conservation. But for professional scientists and amateur birders alike, interpreting...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Askins, Robert
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Zickefoose, Julie
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Edition:2nd ed
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1.. Grassland Birds of the East Coast
  • Chapter 2. Another Quiet Decline
  • Chapter 3. The Great Plains
  • Chapter 4. Lost Birds of the Eastern Forest
  • Chapter 5. Deep-forest Birds and Hostile Edges
  • Chapter 6. Industrial Forestry and the Prospects for Northern Birds
  • Chapter 7. Birds of the Western Mountain Slopes
  • Chapter 8. Declining Birds of Southwestern Floodplains
  • Chapter 9. Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and the Longleaf Pine Woodland
  • Chapter 10. Landscape Ecology
  • Afterword
  • Appendix 1. Scientific Names of Organisms Other Than Birds
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index