Composition and structure of the lacustrine bird communities of seasonally flooded wetlands of Western Brazilian Amazonia at high water

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 521-540

  Cintra, Renato ^a   Dos Santos, Pedro Manuel Ribeiro Simões ^b   Leite, Cristina Banks ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aman ; Amazonia; Aquatic birds; Brazil; Community composition; Lacustrine water bodies; Mamirau ; Piscivorous birds; Water body shape

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

AMANA NATURE RESERVE; AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; FRENCH GUIANA; MAMIRAUA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RESERVE; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; ORITHYIA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 39449117120     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)030[0521:CASOTL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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