Importance of forest structure versus floristics to composition of avian assemblages in tropical deciduous forests of Central Highlands, India

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2287-2295

  Jayapal, Rajah ^a   Qureshi, Qamar ^a   Chellam, Ravi ^b  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society India   (India)

Author keywords

Avian guilds; Birds; Ecological scale; Floristics; Forest structure; Mantel's test; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AVIAN GUILDS; ECOLOGICAL SCALE; FLORISTICS; FOREST STRUCTURE; MANTEL'S TEST; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIRDS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; OCEAN HABITATS; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FLORISTICS; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STAND STRUCTURE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIRDS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; PLANTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

AVES;

EID: 64549127710     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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