Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 219-229

  Van Houtan, Kyle S ^a,b   Pimm, Stuart L ^a   Halley, John M ^c   Bierregaard Jr , Richard O ^b,d   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^b,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^e H John Heinz III Center for Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal kernels; Forest fragmentation; Gamma; Gap crossing; Log hyperbolic secant; Long distance dispersal; Population extinctions; Rayleigh; Understory forest birds

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; GAP DYNAMICS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33847068710     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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