Avian movement across abrupt ecological edges: Differential responses to housing density in an urban matrix

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 266-272

  Hodgson, Patricia ^a   French, Kristine ^a   Major, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Dispersal; Edge; Matrix; Meta population; Movement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

BIRDS; BUSHLANDS; CANOPY VEGETATION; META POPULATION;

ECOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; BUSHLAND; DISPERSAL; EDGE EFFECT; HOUSING CONDITIONS; INSECTIVORE; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; NECTARIVORY; OMNIVORY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION;

AVES;

EID: 33846631325     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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