Bird community responses along urban-rural gradients: Does the size of the urbanized area matter?

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 33-41

  Garaffa, Pablo I ^a   Filloy, Julieta ^a,b   Bellocq, M Isabel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Abundance; Argentina; Community similarity; Richness; Spatial patterns; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

ABUNDANCE; ARGENTINA; COMMUNITY SIMILARITY; RICHNESS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; URBANIZATION;

RURAL AREAS;

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; RURAL AREA; SIZE EFFECT; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 59549097873     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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