Breakdown of the species-area relationship in exotic but not in native forest patches

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-279

  Magura, Tibor ^a   Báldi, András ^b   Horváth, Róbert ^a  

^a Directorate of the Hortobágy National Park   (Hungary)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Birds; Forest specialist species; Forestry practice; Generalist species; Habitat structure; Hungary

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERALIST; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NATIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 42749096100     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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