Do fire and rainfall drive spatial and temporal population shifts in parrots? A case study using urban parrot populations

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-301

  Davis, Adrian ^a   Taylor, Charlotte E ^a   Major, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; Fire; Parrot; Rainfall; Sydney; Urban

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DROUGHT; FIRES; RAIN;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; AVIAN COMMUNITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PARROT; SYDNEY; URBAN;

BIRDS;

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE; MIGRATION; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

AVES; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 79952004739     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.017     Document Type: Article

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