Experimental evidence for extreme dispersal limitation in tropical forest birds

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 960-968

  Moore, R P ^a   Robinson, W D ^a   Lovette, I J ^b   Robinson, T R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Archipelago; Dispersal; Dispersal limitation; Extinction; Forest fragmentation; Island biogeography; Population persistence; Tropical forest birds

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FLIGHT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLYING; GEOGRAPHY; PANAMA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; PANAMA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AVES;

EID: 49249133864     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01196.x     Document Type: Article

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