Predicting the impacts of urbanization on riparian bird communities

Biological Conservation

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-299

  Rottenborn, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b H T HARVEY AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Canonical correspondence analysis; Riparian; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; RIPARIAN FOREST; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033017970     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00128-1     Document Type: Article

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