Effects of habitat structure and adjacent habitats on birds in tropical rainforest fragments and shaded plantations in the Western Ghats, India

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1577-1607

  Raman, T R Shankar ^a,b  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^b Rainforest Restoration Research Station   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Anamalai hills; Bird communities; Cardamom; Coffee; Countryside biogeography; Fragmentation; Habitat structure and floristics; Landscape matrix; Tropical wet evergreen forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANNAMALAI HILLS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; WESTERN GHATS;

AVES; ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM;

EID: 33745442836     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-2352-5     Document Type: Article

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