Global patterns in the establishment and distribution of exotic birds

Biological Conservation

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 69-96

  Case, Ted J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

birds; exotic species; extinction; habitat destruction; invisibility

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENDEMIC BIRD; EXTINCTION; INTRODUCED BIRD;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030251398     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3207(96)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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