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A Census Of A Breeding Bird Population In A Virgin Spruce-Fir Forest On Mt. Guyot, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Frederick Joseph Alsop
A Census Of A Breeding Bird Population In A Virgin Spruce-Fir Forest On Mt. Guyot, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Frederick Joseph Alsop
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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to determine as accurately as possible the density of the bird populations in a virgin spruce-fir forest before changes in the forest resulting from aphid damage occurred. Accounts of the kinds of birds to be found in the spruce-fir biome are numerous. Some taken in the Southern Appalachians date almost one hundred years ago (Brewster, 1886). These reports give excellent records of the numbers of species to be found, but none give the numbers of individuals of each species, the density, to be expected for a given unit of measure …