Energy availability, abundance, energy-use and species richness in forest bird communities: A test of the species-energy theory

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 290-302

  Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a,c   Forsman, Jukka T ^b   Bokma, Folmer ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body size; Europe; Migrant birds; More individuals hypothesis; North America; Productivity; Resident birds; Spatial autocorrelation; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BREEDING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33646132540     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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