Effects of forest fragment size and successional stage on mixed-species bird flocks in southeastern Brazil

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 585-594

  Maldonado Coelho, Marcos ^a   Marini, Miguel  ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Brazil; Foraging behavior; Forest fragmentation; Mixed species flocks; Seasonal effects

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 0033849210     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369789     Document Type: Article

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