Effect of habitat complexity on richness, abundance and distributional pattern of forest birds

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 296-303

  Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, Maryam ^a   Kaboli, Mohammad ^a   Karami, Mahmoud ^a   Etemad, Vahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abundance; Avian community; Distributional pattern; Forest; Habitat complexity; Richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIAN COMMUNITY; DISTRIBUTIONAL PATTERN; FOREST; HABITAT COMPLEXITY; RICHNESS;

BIRDS; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BIRD; FOREST; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; FOREST; FOREST BIRD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; IRAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; IRAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; COMPUTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; IRAN;

IRAN;

AVES;

EID: 84864289376     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9877-7     Document Type: Article

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