Relationship between the presence of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and Neotropical bird community structure and diversity

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-96

  MacGregor Fors, Ian ^a   Morales Pérez, Lorena ^a   Quesada, Javier ^a,b   Schondube, Jorge E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b Museu de Zoologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bird communities; Exotic species; House Sparrow; Human altered ecosystems; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PASSERINE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 72149084116     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9432-5     Document Type: Article

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