Bird dietary guild richness across latitudes, environments and biogeographic regions

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 328-340

  Kissling, W D ^a   Sekercioglu, Cagan H ^b,c   Jetz, Walter ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Biogeography; Birds; Ecology; Food; Guild assembly; Niche; Species diversity; Species energy theory; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; BIRD; DATABASE; DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FRUGIVORY; GUILD STRUCTURE; NECTARIVORY; OMNIVORY; SCAVENGER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES;

EID: 84856781676     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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