Thresholds in the long-term responses of breeding birds to forest cover and fragmentation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 952-962

  Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a   Porter, William F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlases; Colonization threshold; Ecological threshold; Extinction threshold; Forest birds; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; New York State

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MITIGATION; PERSISTENCE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; THRESHOLD;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 77649237732     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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