Bird metacommunities in temperate South American forest: Vegetation structure, area, and climate effects

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 981-990

  Meynard, Christine N ^a,c   Quinn, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Department of Environmental Science and Policy ^*  (United States)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Area effect; Dissimilarity; Diversity; Metacommunity; Patagonia; Richness; Species sorting; Temperate forest; Turnover rates; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; PATCH DYNAMICS; SITE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHILE; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHILE; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

AVES;

EID: 42949166330     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0350.1     Document Type: Article

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