Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 426-436

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^b   Clergeau, Philippe ^c   Cueto, Victor R ^d   Dinetti, Marco ^e   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^f   Kaisanlahti Jokimäki, Marja Liisa ^g   Jokimäki, Jukka ^g   Mckinney, Michael L ^h   Sodhi, Navjot S ⁱ   Storch, David ^j   Tomialojc, Ludwik ^k   Weisberg, Peter J ^l   Woinarski, John ^m   Fuller, Richard A ⁿ   Cantarello, Elena ^o  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e Ecologia Urbana   (Italy)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^j CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^m ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^o BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Birds; Conservation biogeography; Environmental impacts; Habitat heterogeneity; More individuals hypothesis; Rarity; Scale; Species energy relationship; Species people coexistence; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MACROECOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RARITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 79953770487     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00616.x     Document Type: Article

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