Impacts of adjacent land use and isolation on marsh bird communities

Environmental Management

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1040-1051

  Smith, Lyndsay A ^a   Chow Fraser, Patricia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest buffer; Index of marsh bird community integrity; Rural; Urban; Wetland dependent birds

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITIES; COASTAL MARSH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FOREST BUFFER; HUMAN POPULATION; INDEX OF MARSH BIRD COMMUNITY INTEGRITY; ISOLATION EFFECTS; ONTARIO , CANADA; RURAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN LAND USE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RURAL AREAS;

WETLANDS;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; LAND USE; MARSH; POPULATION DECLINE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION; WETLAND;

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CANADA; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAND USE; MARSH; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTARIO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION; WETLANDS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES;

EID: 77952877547     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9475-5     Document Type: Article

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