Analysis of avian communities in Lake Guri, Venezuela, using multiple assembly rule models

Oecologia

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 104-113

  Feeley, Kenneth ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Competition; Guild structure; Nestedness

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ASSEMBLY RULE; AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GUILD STRUCTURE; NESTEDNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; NESTING BEHAVIOR; VENEZUELA;

VENEZUELA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANIDAE;

EID: 0141838218     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1321-5     Document Type: Article

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