Are Fragments Islands? Landscape Context and Density-Area Relationships in Boreal Forest Birds

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-357

  Brotons, Lluís ^a,b   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a   Martin, Jean Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Archipelagoes; Forest birds; Habitat fragmentation; Matrix quality; Meta analysis; Patch area effect

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BOREAL FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISLAND; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0141702355     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376887     Document Type: Article

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