Effects of windthrow disturbance on a forest bird community depend on spatial scale

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 762-770

  Murakami, Masashi ^a   Hirao, Toshihide ^a   Iwamoto, Jiro ^a   Oguma, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bird guild; Body size; Canopy gap; Functional spatial scale; Habitat heterogeneity; Species richness; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 51249097510     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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