Bird species composition and feeding guilds based on point count and mist netting methods at the Paya Indah Wetland Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia

Tropical Life Sciences Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 7-26

  Zakaria, Mohamed ^a   Rajpar, Muhammad Nawaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Diversity; Feeding guild; Mist netting; Species abundance

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GUILD STRUCTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

ARDEIDAE; AVES; COLUMBA; PYCNONOTIDAE; PYCNONOTUS GOIAVIER; RALLIDAE; STURNIDAE; TRERON VERNANS;

EID: 79960456071     PISSN: 19853718     EISSN: 19858345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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