Use of tropical dry forests and agricultural areas by neotropical bird communities

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-370

  Macgregor Fors, Ian ^a   Schondube, Jorge E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agricultural systems; Biodiversity conservation; Cattle pasture; Human modified habitat matrixes; Tree orchard

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CATTLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DRY FOREST; FARMING SYSTEM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; ORCHARD; PASTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES; BOS;

EID: 79955118224     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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