Two-phase species-time relationships in North American land birds

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 329-336

  White, Ethan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding Bird Survey; Macroecology; Sampling; Species richness; Species area relationship; Species time relationship; Temporal scaling; Temporal turnover

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURNOVER;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 1842855331     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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