The effects of urban sprawl on birds at multiple levels of biological organization

Ecology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Blair, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian community; California; Cardinalis cardinalis; Extinction; Faunal homogenization; Invasion; Landscape heterogeneity; Nesting success; Ohio; Predation; Turdus migratorius; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; EXTINCTION; LAND USE; PREDATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; URBANIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4243075400     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00688-090502     Document Type: Article

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