How to manage the urban green to improve bird diversity and community structure

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-285

  Fontana, Simone ^a,b   Sattler, Thomas ^a,c   Bontadina, Fabio ^c,d   Moretti, Marco ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d SWILD Urban Ecology and Wildlife Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bird biodiversity; City; Coniferous woody plants; Structural complexity; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FORECASTING; INFORMATION THEORY;

BIRD COMMUNITY COMPOSITIONS; BIRD SPECIES RICHNESS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; SWITZERLAND; WOODY PLANTS;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GREENSPACE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; INDEX METHOD; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

AVES; CONIFERALES;

EID: 79955661518     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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