Attaining from inside Alaska throughout Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America’s boreal woodland is the biggest wasteland region left on the earth. it truly is severe habitat for billions of birds; greater than three hundred species usually breed there. After the breeding season, many boreal birds migrate to seasonal habitats around the usa, Mexico, the Caribbean, and imperative and South the US. This quantity brings jointly new study on boreal fowl biology and conservation. It highlights the significance of the zone to the worldwide avifauna and to the connectivity among the boreal wooded area and ecoregions during the Americas. The contributions show off a distinct set of views at the migration, wintering ecology, and conservation of fowl groups which are tied to the boreal woodland in ways in which won't were formerly thought of.
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Conservation Biology 21:266–268. Margules, C. , and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature 405:243–253. , L. Dickson, R. Elliot, and G. Donaldson. 2003. Wings over water: Canada’s waterbird conservation plan. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, ON. Mittermeier, R. , C. G. Mittermeier, T. M. Brooks, J. D. Pilgrim, W. R. Konstant, G. A. B. Da Fonseca, and C. Kormos. 2003. Wilderness and biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100:10309–10313.
Inset map indicates regions where data were collected, with colors corresponding to bar colors. 3. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service, 1987). Numbers indicate strata identification. more explicitly tied to NAWMP, indicating mainstream support for WBF conservation within the waterfowl research and conservation community. The WBF is a high-priority area (North American Waterfowl Management Plan, Plan Committee 2007) because this region (Fig. 1), contains about 29% of the ducks counted in North America during the breeding season (Fig.
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