What drives the positive correlation between human population density and bird species richness in Australia?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 673-683

  Luck, Gary W ^a   Smallbone, Lisa ^a   McDonald, Simon ^a   Duffy, Deanna ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birds; Human population density; Land use policy; Landscape heterogeneity; Potential energy; Primary productivity; Sampling effort; Spatial covariance; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 77957233237     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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