The diversity of cloud forest birds on the eastern and western slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes: A latitudinal and comparative analysis with implications for conservation

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 475-482

  Poulsen, Bent Otto ^a   Krabbe, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; CLOUD FOREST; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION; LATITUDE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0030874944     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00415.x     Document Type: Article

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