Is bird incidence in Atlantic forest fragments influenced by landscape patterns at multiple scales?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 907-918

  Boscolo, Danilo ^a   Metzger, Jean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic plateau; AUC; Brazil; Chiroxiphia caudata; Fragmentation; Incidence; Landscape structure; Pyriglena leucoptera; S o Paulo; Spatial scale; Xiphorhynchus fuscus

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CREATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; LOGISTICS; PASSERINE; RECOLONIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; CHIROXIPHIA CAUDATA; PYRIGLENA LEUCOPTERA; XIPHORHYNCHUS FUSCUS;

EID: 70350158398     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9370-8     Document Type: Article

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