Foraging guild structure within a primaeval mixed forest bird assemblage: A comparison of two concepts

Community Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-149

  Kornan M ^a   Adamik P ^b  

^a Center for Ecological Studies   (Slovakia)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

A posteriori approach; Bootstrap testing; Cluster analysis; Generalist species; Guild concepts; Ordination; r mkov National Nature Reserve; Specialist species

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FORAGE; GENERALIST; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MIXED FOREST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NICHE; SPECIALIST;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA; SRAMKOVA NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE; ZILINSKY;

ABIES; AVES; FAGUS;

EID: 37649006947     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.8.2007.2.1     Document Type: Article

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