Clearing width and movements of understory rainforest birds

Biotropica

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-152

  Laurence, Susan G W ^a   Gomez, Marcela S ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon birds; Bird movements; Bird translocations; Rainforest fragmentation; Roads; Understory birds

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOVEMENT; RAINFOREST; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES;

EID: 17644426037     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.04099.x     Document Type: Article

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