Scales and consequences of human land transformation on South African avian diversity and structure

Animal Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-73

  Fairbanks, Dean H K ^a,b   Kshatriya, M ^a   van Jaarsveld, A S ^a   Underhill, L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FYNBOS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KAROO BASIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0010223240     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943002001087     Document Type: Article

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