Landscape-level effects on avifauna within tropical agriculture in the Western Ghats: Insights for management and conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2909-2917

  Ranganathan, Jai ^a   Krishnaswamy, Jagdish ^b   Anand, M O ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Arecanut; Betelnut; Coffee; Greviella robusta; Kauth Thomas transformation; Remote sensing; Silver oak; Tasseled cap transformation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST COVER; LANDSCAPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NUT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

AVES; GREVILLEA ROBUSTA;

EID: 78149497438     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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