Disentangling the effects of area, energy and habitat heterogeneity on boreal forest bird species richness in protected areas

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-71

  Honkanen, Merja ^a   Roberge, Jean Michel ^a,b   Rajasärkkä, Ari ^c   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Natural Heritage Services   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birds; Finland; Habitat heterogeneity; Productive energy; Solar energy; Species number; Species area relationship; Species energy relationship

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; CENSUS; ENERGY FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTECTED AREA; RARITY; SOLAR POWER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

FINLAND;

AVES;

EID: 72549119869     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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