Compositional changes over space and time along an occurrence-abundance continuum: Anthropogenic homogenization of the North American avifauna

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2159-2167

  La Sorte, Frank A ^a,c   McKinney, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Abundance occupancy relationship; Avian assemblages; Beta diversity; Biotic homogenization; Breeding Bird Survey; Compositional similarity; Distance decay; Macroecology; North America

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 36248940182     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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