The role of transitional areas as avian biodiversity centres

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-196

  Kark, Salit ^a   Allnutt, Thomas F ^b   Levin, Noam ^c   Manne, Lisa L ^d   Williams, Paul H ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b World Wildlife Fund US ^*  (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Boundaries; Conservation; Ecoregions; Ecotones; New World; Passeriforms; Range size rarity; Transitional areas

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOREGION; RANGE SIZE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33847231859     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00274.x     Document Type: Article

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