The relative importance of patch habitat quality and landscape attributes on a declining steppe-bird metapopulation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1057-1067

  Vögeli, Matthias ^a   Serrano, David ^a   Pacios, Fernando ^a,b   Tella, José L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chersophilus duponti; Connectivity; Dupont's lark; Habitat quality; Landscape matrix; Occurrence; Patch size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MATRIX; METAPOPULATION; PASSERINE; PATCH SIZE; PATCH USE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STEPPE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; CHERSOPHILUS DUPONTI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77951024963     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.040     Document Type: Article

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