Annotated Bibliography of Fire Literature

Relative to Northern Grasslands in South-Central Canada and North-Central United States

25. Best, L.B. 1979. Effects of fire on a field sparrow population. Am Midl Nat 101:434-442.

Field sparrow nesting behavior in an Illinois shrub-grassland site during two seasons preceding and one season following an incomplete late-April prescribed burn. Data on territory establishment, habitat utilization, pair bonding, mate fidelity, site selection, and nest success.

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