Role of mixed-species flocks in the use of adjacent savannas by forest birds in the central Cerrado, Brazil

Austral Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-45

  Tubelis, Dárius P ^a,c   Cowling, Ann ^b   Donnelly, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Habitat boundary; Landscape matrix; Mixed species flock; Patch matrix movement

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; PATCH USE; SAVANNA; TRANSECT;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33644822813     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01541.x     Document Type: Article

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