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The Red-cockaded Woodpecker : surviving in a fire-maintained ecosystem /

"In this book three of the leading experts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker offer a comprehensive overview of all that is currently known about the woodpecker's biology and natural history and about the ecology of the fire-maintained forest it requires for survival." "As the most v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Conner, Richard N. (Autor), Rudolph, D. Craig (Autor), Walters, Jeffrey Ray, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Corrie Herring Hooks series ; no. 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Frances C. James
  • Ch. 1. An Introduction
  • Ch. 2. Fire-Maintained Pine Ecosystems
  • Ch. 3. Evolution, Taxonomy, and Morphology of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker
  • Ch. 4. Red-cockaded Woodpecker Distribution: Past and Present
  • Ch. 5. Cavity Trees in Fire-Maintained Southern Pine Ecosystems
  • Ch. 6. Social Behavior and Population Biology
  • Ch. 7. Foraging Ecology of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers
  • Ch. 8. Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and Bark Beetles: A Love-Hate Relationship
  • Ch. 9. The Causes of Population Declines
  • Ch. 10. Extinction, Legal Status, and History of Management
  • Ch. 11. State-of-the-Art Management
  • Ch. 12. An Uncertain Future.