Urbanization and stability of a bird community in winter

Ecoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 502-507

  Suhonen, Jukka ^a,b   Jokimäki, Jukka ^c   Kaisanlahti Jokimäki, Marja Liisa ^c   Hakkarainen, Harri ^b   Huhta, Esa ^b,d   Inki, Kimmo ^e   Suorsa, Petri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Southeast Finland Regional Environmental Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Latitude; Persistence of community; Species richness; Stability of community; Wintering bird assemblage

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WINTER;

FINLAND;

AVES;

EID: 76749143032     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/16-4-3280     Document Type: Article

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