Functional homogenization of bird communities along habitat gradients: Accounting for niche multidimensionality

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 684-696

  Clavero, Miguel ^a,b   Brotons, Lluís ^a,c  

^a Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Birds; Catalonia; Forest expansion; Generalism; Land abandonment; Landscape gradients; Rarity; Specialization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FOREST; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

AVES;

EID: 78649994990     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00544.x     Document Type: Article

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