Impacts of tropical forest disturbance upon avifauna on a small island with high endemism: Implications for conservation

Conservation and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-139

  Martin, Thomas Edward ^a   Blackburn, George Alan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Bird communities; Island endemics; Tropical rainforest; Wallacea

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955848321     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.68914     Document Type: Article

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