Land-cover and land-use change and its contribution to the large-scale organization of Puerto Rico's bird assemblages

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-122

  Acevedo, Miguel A ^a   Restrepo, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Bird assemblages; Endemic species; Land cover; Land use; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

AVES;

EID: 37149012349     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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