Human disturbance affects a deciduous forest bird community in the Andean foothills of Central Bolivia

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-380

  Aben, Job ^a   Dorenbosch, Martijn ^a   Herzog, Sebastian K ^b,c   Smolders, Alfons J P ^a   Van der Velde, Gerard ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Asociacion Armonia BirdLife International   (Bolivia)

^c INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEOTROPICAL REGION;

ANDES; BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 55449136365     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270908007326     Document Type: Article

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