Birds and butterflies along an urban gradient: Surrogate taxa for assessing biodiversity?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 164-170

  Blair, Robert B ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Butterflies; California; Conservation; Development; Gradient analysis; Human disturbance; Land use; Species diversity; Species richness; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; URBAN AREA;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0033082051     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0164:BABAAU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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