Resilience and stability in bird guilds across tropical countryside

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 21134-21139

  Karp, Daniel S ^a   Ziv, Guy ^b   Zook, Jim ^c   Ehrlich, Paul R ^a   Daily, Gretchen C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Unión de Ornitólogos de Costa Rica ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Avian; Compensation; Countryside biogeography; Intensification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOREST; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICS;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84855486122     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118276108     Document Type: Article

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