Mean latitudinal range sizes of bird assemblages in six Neotropical forest chronosequences

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-366

  Dunn, Robert R ^a   Romdal, Tom S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Birds; Disturbance; Range size frequency distribution; Secondary forest; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT TYPE; LATITUDE; RANGE SIZE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 22144482417     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2005.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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