Relative importance of habitat quantity, structure, and spatial pattern to birds in urbanizing environments

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-117

  Donnelly, Roarke ^a,b   Marzluff, John M ^a  

^a OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Conservation; Fragmentation; Landscape; Pattern; Urbany; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 33744543270     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-006-7904-2     Document Type: Article

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