Edge effects as the principal cause of area effects on birds in fragmented secondary forest

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 918-926

  Banks Leite, Cristina ^a   Ewers, Robert M ^b   Metzger, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EDGE EFFECT; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCH SIZE; SECONDARY FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES;

EID: 77953584626     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18061.x     Document Type: Article

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