Bird communities in transition: The Lago Guri islands

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1494-1501

  Terborgh, John ^a   Lopez, Lawrence ^b   Jose Tello S ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird communities; Colonization; Ecological release; Extinction; Faunal relaxation; Island biogeography; Lago Guri; Land bridge islands; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

AVES; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS OLIVACEUS; GALLIFORMES;

BIRD COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; IMPOUNDMENT; POPULATION DENSITY;

VENEZUELA, BOLIVAR STATE, LAGO GURI;

EID: 0030613992     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1494:BCITTL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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