Nesting success of Costa Rican lowland rain forest birds in response to edge and isolation effects

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 615-622

  Young, Bruce E ^a   Sherry, Thomas W ^a   Sigel, Bryan J ^a   Woltmann, Stefan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Forest edge; Forest fragmentation; Nest predation; Nest success; Tropical birds; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NEST PREDATION; NESTING; RAINFOREST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

AVES;

EID: 49849092743     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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