Composition of an avian guild in spatially structured habitats supports a competition-colonization trade-off

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1616, 2007, Pages 1403-1411

  Rodríguez, Alejandro ^a   Jansson, Gunnar ^b   Andrén, Henrik ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community structure; Habitat fragmentation; Isolation thresholds; Keystone predator; Landscape processes

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GUILD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PASSERINE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION; FOWL; GLAUCIDIUM PASSERINUM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PARUS ATER; PARUS CRISTATUS; PARUS MONTANUS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULUS REGULUS; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

AVES; GLAUCIDIUM PASSERINUM; HEXAPODA; PARUS; PARUS ATER; PARUS CRISTATUS; PARUS MONTANUS; REGULUS REGULUS;

EID: 34447303758     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0104     Document Type: Article

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