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Article: Habitat characteristics of some passerine birds in western North American taiga.
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- Arctic
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By BRINA KESSEL. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1998. x + 117 p., colour and b
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w illus., bib., index. Softbound. US$16.95.Relatively little research has been conducted on the ecology of birds of the vast subarctic forests that comprise the northern portion of the boreal forest biome. Much of the published information that does exist is in the form of either simple faunal lists or compilations of census data. Thus I welcomed the appearance of this monograph, which represents Brina Kessel's attempt to quantify and summarize species-specific habitat relations for a number of common boreal forest birds of central Alaska. The analysis is based primarily on the ...