Research Letters in Ecology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 202606, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/202606
Research Letter

Long-Term Bird Assemblage Trends in Areas of High and Low Human Population Density

Kyle Barrett, Christina M. Romagosa, and Matthew I. Williams

Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 331 Funchess Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, USA

Received 7 August 2008; Accepted 12 November 2008

Academic Editor: Loren Smith

Copyright © 2008 Kyle Barrett et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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