Twenty years of understorey bird extinctions from Amazonian rain forest fragments: Consistent trends and landscape-mediated dynamics

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-97

  Stouffer, Philip C ^a,b   Strong, Cheryl ^b   Naka, Luciano N ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Bird communities; Extinction; Forest fragmentation; Landscape dynamics; Rain forest; Rescue effect

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RAINFOREST; RECOLONIZATION; SECONDARY FOREST; TREND ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 57349175122     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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