Diversity, biomass, and trophic structure of a central Amazonian rainforest bird community;Diversidade, biomassa, e estrutura trófica de uma comunidade de aves de floresta tropical na Amazônia central

Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Johnson, Erik I ^a,b   Stouffer, Philip C ^a,b   Vargas, Claudeir F ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biomass; Bird communities; Rainforest; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FRUGIVORY; GRANIVORY; INSECTIVORE; ORNITHOLOGY; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

AVES;

EID: 79959421416     PISSN: 01035657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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