The importance of gallery forests in the tropical lowlands of Costa Rica for understorey forest birds

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Seaman, Benjamin S ^a   Schulze, Christian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corridors; Mist netting; Riparian linear forest; Species composition; Species richness; Understorey birds

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRANIVORY; GUILD; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COSTA RICA;

AVES;

EID: 73649083645     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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