Recent fire history and connectivity patterns determine bird species distribution dynamics in landscapes dominated by land abandonment

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-184

  Zozaya, Elena L ^a   Brotons, Lluís ^a,b   Saura, Santiago ^a,c  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Museu de Zoologia   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonisation dynamics; Connectivity; Fire history; Habitat configuration; Land abandonment; Land use changes; Open habitat bird species; Potential dispersal flux

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIRD; COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCHINESS; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHRUBLAND; SUCCESSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WILDFIRE;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

AVES;

EID: 84856227671     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9695-y     Document Type: Article

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