Habitat conversion and global avian biodiversity loss

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1521, 2003, Pages 1293-1300

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Blackburn, Tim M ^b   Klein Goldewijk, Kees ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birds; Global; Land use change; Populations

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING METHOD; FOWL; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LOGGING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0037899562     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2303     Document Type: Article

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