Landscape-level patterns of avian diversity in the Oregon Coast Range

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 259-281

  Cushman, Samuel A ^a   McGarigal, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird communities; Habitat diversity; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Landscape pattern; Mature forest area; Mature forest fragmentation; Oregon Coast Range; Species diversity; Species evenness; Watershed

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

COAST RANGE; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0037599392     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2003)073[0259:LPOADI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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