Landscape perception by forest understory birds in the Atlantic Rainforest: Black-and-white versus shades of grey

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-417

  Hansbauer, Miriam M ^a   Storch, Ilse ^a   Knauer, Felix ^a   Pilz, Stefan ^b   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^b   Végvári, Zsolt ^c   Pimentel, Rafael G ^d   Metzger, Jean Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Forest fragmentation; Habitat preference index; Neotropical rainforest; Passerines

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PASSERINE; PERCEPTION; RADIOTELEMETRY; RAINFOREST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES; CHIROXIPHIA CAUDATA; PYRIGLENA LEUCOPTERA; SCLERURUS SCANSOR;

EID: 77952744218     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9418-9     Document Type: Article

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