Spatial patterns of woody plant and bird diversity: Functional relationships or environmental effects?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-339

  Kissling, W Daniel ^a,b   Field, Richard ^c   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Virtual Institute Macroecology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Biodiversity; Community assembly; Cross taxon congruence; Frugivory; Indirect effects; Kenya; Plant animal interactions; Species energy theory; Trophic guild

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FRUGIVORY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; WOODY PLANT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 42049093635     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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