The impact of urbanization on taxonomic and functional similarity among bird communities

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 894-906

  Luck, Gary W ^a   Smallbone, Lisa T ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Beta diversity; Birds; Community similarity; Distance decay effect; Functional similarity; Homogenization; Species turnover; Taxonomic similarity; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT TYPE; HOMOGENEITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 79954996198     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02449.x     Document Type: Article

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