Are land bird assemblages functionally saturated? An empirical test in Mexico

Oikos

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 169-181

  Gómez De Silva, Héctor ^a,b   Medellín, Rodrigo A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GUILD STRUCTURE; NICHE;

MEXICO;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036100002     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.10694.x     Document Type: Article

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