Habitat use and life history as predictors of bird responses to habitat change

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 151-162

  Okes, Nicola C ^a   Hockey, Philip A R ^a   Cumming, Graeme S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Life history traits; Range contraction; Range expansion; Waterbird conservation; Wetland loss

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WATERFOWL; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES;

EID: 38849143184     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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