Relative species richness and community completeness: Birds and urbanization in the Mid-Atlantic states

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1196-1210

  Cam, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Nichols, James D ^b   Sauer, John R ^b   Hines, James E ^b   Flather, Curtis H ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture models; Conservation; Ecological communities; Estimation; Integrity; Landscape; Mid Atlantic states; North American Breeding Bird Survey; Relative species richness; Species pool; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION;

(CENTRAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034476950     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1196:RSRACC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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