Restoring North America's Birds : Lessons from Landscape Ecology

by Robert A. Askins; Illustrations by Julie Zickefoose

• ISBN13: 9780300093162
• ISBN10: 0300093160
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-05-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This accessible book draws on recent research on bird species and their habitats to explain how basic principles of bird ecology and landscape ecology can help us create scientifically sound plans for protecting and restoring the rich diversity of North American birds. This edition includes an afterword that reviews noteworthy literature that has appeared since the first edition was completed in 1999. This new material -- on such key issues as the importance of preserving large expanses of natural habitat, the importance of maintaining early successional habitats, and the habitat requirements of neotropical migrants -- shows how the research on landscape ecology of birds has shaped conservation policy more rapidly than most would have predicted.

Table of Contents

Preface
Grassland Birds of the East Coast: Pleistocene Parkland to Hay Meadow	p. 1
Another Quiet Decline: Birds of the Eastern Thickets	p. 27
The Great Plains: Birds of the Shifting Mosaic	p. 55
Lost Birds of the Eastern Forest	p. 75
Deep-forest Birds and Hostile Edges	p. 99
Industrial Forestry and the Prospects for Northern Birds	p. 131
Birds of the Western Mountain Slopes	p. 155
Declining Birds of Southwestern Floodplains	p. 185
Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and the Longleaf Pine Woodland	p. 209
Landscape Ecology: The Key to Bird Conservation	p. 229
Appendixes	p. 247
Notes	p. 257
References	p. 271
Index	p. 311
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