Understory bird communities in Amazonian rainforest fragments: Species turnover through 25 years post-isolation in recovering landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Stouffer, Philip C ^a,d   Johnson, Erik I ^a,d   Bierregaard Jr , Richard O ^b,d   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^c,d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c Heinz Center   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TURNOVER TIME; ANIMAL; BIOTA; BRAZIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

AVES;

RAIN;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; BIRDS; BRAZIL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 79959399234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020543     Document Type: Article

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