Management guilds as indicators of environmental conditions: A case study with birds and habitat disturbances in the central Monte desert, Argentina;Gremios de manejo como indicadores de las condiciones del ambiente: Un estudios de caso con aves y perturbaciones del hábitat en el Monte central, Argentina

Ecologia Austral

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 149-161

  Milesi, Fernando A ^a,b   Marone, Luis ^b,c   Lopez De Casenave, Javier ^a,b   Cueto, Victor R ^a,b   Mezquida, Eduardo T ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^c CASEB   (Chile)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birds; Disturbances; Fire; Grazing; Indicators; Management guilds; Monte

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY;

ARGENTINA; MENDOZA PROVINCE; NACUNAN BIOSPHERE RESERVE;

AVES; POACEAE;

EID: 0036973676     PISSN: 03275477     EISSN: 1667782X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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