Breeding bird species richness in Spain: Assessing diversity hypothesis at various scales

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-250

  González Taboada, Fernando ^a   Nores, Carlos ^b   Álvarez, Miguel Ángel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Indurot Campus de Mieres   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING; PASSERINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 34247219266     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2007.04824.x     Document Type: Article

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