The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3287-3300

  Ukmar, Emiliano ^a   Battisti, Corrado ^b   Luiselli, Luca ^c   Bologna, Marco A ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Conservation Nature Office Province of Rome ^*  (Italy)

^c Centre of Environmental Studies Demetra srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundance; Breeding birds; Community ecology; Diversity; Edge species; Evenness; Fire; Forest species; Mediterranean; Pinewoods; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST FIRE; GUILD; PATCHINESS; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 36148944835     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9126-6     Document Type: Article

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