Bird species in Mediterranean pine plantations exhibit different characteristics to those in natural reforested woodlands

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 305-316

  Galván, Ismael ^a,b   Benayas, José M Rey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Habitat restoration; Life history; Pheomelanin; Plumage colouration; Vegetation restoration

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; CLADISTICS; COLOR; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HABITAT RESTORATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACROECOLOGY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENT; PLANTATION; PLUMAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRITORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

AVES;

EID: 79955989589     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1849-0     Document Type: Article

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