Diversity loss to bird communities after regulation of riverine meanders: Is it compensated by growing oaks on fishpond dams?

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-97

  Šálek, Miroslav ^a   Svobodová, Jana ^a,b   Zasadil, Petr ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Fishpond stands; Habitat deterioration; Redundancy analysis; River ecosystems

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SITE; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AVES; QUERCUS;

EID: 34548301661     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.042.0103     Document Type: Article

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