Population changes in Czech passerines are predicted by their life-history and ecological traits

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 610-621

  Reif, Jiří ^a   Vermouzek, Zdeněk ^a,b   Voříšek, Petr ^c   Šťastný, Karel ^d   Bejček, Vladimír ^e   Flousek, Jiří ^f  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Ornithological Station of Comenius Museum   (Czech Republic)

^d Pan European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme   (Czech Republic)

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

^f Správa Krkonošského národního parku ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abundance; Birds; Czech Republic; Ecological niche; Environmental change; Slow fast continuum.

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77954838845     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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