Can human disturbance promote nestedness? A case study with breeding birds in urban habitat fragments

Oecologia

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-278

  Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian communities; Conservation; Fragmentation; Madrid; Nested species distributions

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NESTEDNESS; URBAN AREA;

SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0036938309     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0883-y     Document Type: Article

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