Microhabitat Selection of three Forest Understory Birds in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-362

  Hansbauer, Miriam M ^a   Végvári, Zsolt ^b   Storch, Ilse ^a   Borntraeger, Robert ^a   Hettich, Ulf ^a   Pimentel, Rafael G ^c   Metzger, Jean Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chiroxiphia caudata; Forest fragmentation; Pyriglena leucoptera; Sclerurus scansor; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; MICROHABITAT; PASSERINE; RAINFOREST; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES; CHIROXIPHIA CAUDATA; PYRIGLENA LEUCOPTERA; SCLERURUS SCANSOR;

EID: 77954103074     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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