Effects of road clearings on movement patterns of understory rainforest birds in central Amazonia

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1099-1109

  Laurance, Susan G W ^a,b,d   Stouffer, Philip C ^b,c   Laurance, William F ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Amazonian birds; Birds and roads; Roads and bird movements

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CLEARANCE RATE; RAINFOREST; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNDERSTORY;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 4043087074     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00268.x     Document Type: Article

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