Measuring community responses to large-scale disturbance in conservation biogeography

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-130

  Devictor, Vincent ^a,b   Robert, Alexandre ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Breeding Bird Survey; Detectability; Disturbance; Diversity indices; Specialist generalist

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DETECTION METHOD; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; METAPOPULATION; SPECIALIST; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 57349182711     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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