Taxonomic distinctness and species richness as measures of functional structure in bird assemblages

Oecologia

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 304-311

  Von Euler, Fredrik ^a,c   Svensson, Sören ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bird community; Monitoring; Species richness; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034773336     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100732     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Elevated predation rates as an edge effect in habitat islands: Experimental evidence
2. A silent clash of paradigms: Some inconsistencies in community ecology
3. Comparing the effects of landscape fragmentation by forestry and agriculture on predation of artificial nests
4. A taxonomic distinctness index and its statistical properties
5. The taxonomic distinctness measure of biodiversity: Weighting of step lengths between hierarchical levels
6. Energy and large-scale patterns of animal- and plant-species richness
7. Double keystone bird in a keystone species complex
8. Interspecific interactions and co-existence in dabbling ducks: Observations and an experiment
9. Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity
10. The species-richness-energy hypothesis in a system where historical factors are thought to prevail: Coral reefs
11. The dynamics of abundance-range size relationships
12. Co-occurrence of Australian land birds: Diamond's assembly rules revisited
13. Prey selection by sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus: Relative predation risk for breeding passerine birds in relation to their size, ecology, and behaviour
14. Taxonomic distinctness and diversity measures: Responses in marine fish communities
15. On the relationship between range size and local abundance: Back to basics
16. Positive and negative effects of organisms as physical ecosystem engineers
17. Habitat heterogeneity as a determinant of mammal species richness in high-energy regions
18. Phylogenetic measures of biodiversity: A comparison and critique
19. Are there general laws in ecology?
20. On large-scale dynamics and community structure in forest birds: Lessons from some eucalypt forests of southeastem Australia
21. Challenges in the quest for keystones
22. The taxonomic distinctness of coastal bottom-dwelling fish communities of the North-east Atlantic
23. Conservation and coevolutionary implications of brood parasitism by cowbirds
24. A new method for detecting species associations with spatially autocorrelated data
25. Sizes of feeding territories among birds
26. Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones: Is single-species management passé in the landscape era?
27. What to protect? Systematics and the agony of choice
28. An objective indicator of functional integrity in avian communities
29. Taxonomic distinctness and environmental assessment
30. Island size, isolation, or interspecific competition? The breeding distribution of the Parus guild in the Danish archipelago
31. Energy supply and patterns of species richness on local and regional scales