Edge effect of low-traffic forest roads on bird communities in secondary production forests in central Europe

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1113-1124

  Šálek, Miroslav ^a   Svobodová, Jana ^a,b   Zasadil, Petr ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bird assemblages; Czech Republic; Edge effect; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape structure; Point count method

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST EDGE; GUILD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MOTORWAY; NOISE; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 77954426125     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9487-9     Document Type: Article

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