Landscape effects on birds in urban woodlands: An analysis of 34 Swedish cities

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1302-1316

  Hedblom, Marcus ^a   Söderström, Bo ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birds; City forest; Forest remnant; Fragmentation; Landscape; Matrix; Sweden; Threshold; Urban gradient

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; IMMIGRATION; LANDSCAPE; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIURBAN AREA; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THRESHOLD; WOODLAND;

SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 77954776331     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02299.x     Document Type: Article

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