Effects of wildfire on endemic breeding birds in a Pinus canariensis Forest of Tenerife, Canary Islands

Ecoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 298-311

  Garcia Del Rey, Eduardo ^a   Otto, Rüdiger ^a   Fernández Palacios, José María ^a   Muñoz, Pascual Gil ^b   Gil, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

breeding birds; Canary Islands; community ecology; fire; forest management; Fringilla teydea; Mediterranean; Pinus canariensis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS BURNING; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GUILD; ISLAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; LINE TRANSECT; PASSERINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILDFIRE;

CANARY ISLANDS; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

AVES; CYANISTES; DENDROCOPOS MAJOR; ERICA; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA TEYDEA; MYRICA; MYRICACEAE; PHYLLOSCOPUS CANARIENSIS; PINUS CANARIENSIS; REGULUS REGULUS; REGULUS TENERIFFAE; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 77958155873     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/17-3-3321     Document Type: Article

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