Resources and global avian assemblage structure in forests

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 282-289

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biomass; Birds; Energy use; Macroecology; Species richness

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENERGY USE; FOREST; MACROECOLOGY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 15444380968     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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