The effect of landscape contexts on wintering bird communities in rural Japan

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 216, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 187-200

  Yamaura, Yuichi ^a   Katoh, Kazuhiro ^a   Fujita, Go ^b   Higuchi, Hiroyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birds; Conifer plantation; Coppices; Landscape context

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYING;

CONIFER PLANTATION; COPPICES; LANDSCAPE CONTEXT; WILDLIFE;

ECOLOGY;

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COPPICE; GUILD STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWOODS; SURVEYING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 24944497649     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.05.028     Document Type: Article

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