Conservation of forest birds: Evidence of a shifting baseline in community structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Rittenhouse, Chadwick D ^a   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Albright, Thomas P ^a   Culbert, Patrick D ^a   Clayton, Murray K ^b   Flather, Curtis H ^c   Huang, Chengquan ^d   Masek, Jeffrey G ^e   Stewart, Susan I ^f   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MIGRANT BIRD; NEOTROPICS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; TREE;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; TREES;

EID: 77957808354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011938     Document Type: Article

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