Land use changes affect distributional patterns of desert birds in the Baja California peninsula, Mexico

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 877-889

  Rodríguez Estrella, Ricardo ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Baja California; Desert birds distribution; GLM predictive models; Human activity effects; Mexico; Sonoran desert vegetation

Indexed keywords

BAR; DIGITAL IMAGE; FIELD SURVEY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION TYPE;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 35448994848     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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