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Description: |
xiii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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General Note: |
This symposium held in Nacogdoches, July 13-14, 1978, was sponsored by the School of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, and the USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, Wildlife Habitat and Silviculture Laboratory, Nacogdoches, Texas. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Insectivorous birds and North American forest ecosystems / Jerome A. Jackson -- Analysis of community census data : a multivariate approach / Leon J. Folse, Jr. -- Avian census techniques : an analytical review / William M. Shields -- Sampling considerations for evaluating the effects of mortality agents on bark beetles / Robert Coulson, Paul Pulley and Lewis Edson -- Tree surfaces as foraging substrates for insectivorous birds / Jerome A. Jackson -- Seasonal changes in woodpecker foraging methods : strategies for winter survival / Richard N. Conner -- Implications of optimal foraging theory for insectivorous forest birds / Edward O. Garton -- Factors controlling foraging strategies of insectivorous birds / Thomas C. Grubb, Jr. -- The comparative foraging behaviour of yellow-throated and solitary vireos : the effect of habitat and sympatry / Ross D. James -- Foraging ecology and habitat utilization in the genus Sialia / Benedict C. Pinkowski -- Foraging tactics of flycatchers in southwestern Virginia -- Jerry W. Via -- Vertical and temporal habitat utilization within a breeding bird community / Stanley H. Anderson, Herman H. Shugart, Jr. and Thomas M. Smith -- The use of nesting boxes to study the biology of the mountain chickadee (Parus gambeli) and its impact on selected forest insects / Donald L. Dahlsten and William A. Copper -- Seasonal populations of insectivorous birds in a mature bottomland hardwood forest in South Louisiana / James G. Dickson -- Impact of woodpecker predation on over-wintering within-tree populations of the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) / James C. Kroll and Robert R. Fleet -- The pileated woodpecker in forests of the northern Rocky Mountains / B. Riley McClelland. |
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Contents: Population demographies, spacing, and foraging behaviors of white-breasted and pigmy nuthatches in ponderosa pine habitat / Shaun M. McEllin -- Winter feeding niche partitionment by tufted titmice and Carolina chickadees in East Texas / R. Montague Whiting, Jr. -- The effects of insectivorous bird activities in forest ecosystems : an evaluation / Imre S. Otvos -- Concluding remarks / Stanley H. Anderson. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Role of insectivorous birds in forest ecosystems. New York : Academic Press, 1979 (OCoLC)644064777 |