Bird conservation in extremely small tropical rainforest patches in southwest China

Biological Conservation

Volumn 158, Issue , 2013, Pages 188-195

  Chang, Xue ^a,b   Quan, Rui Chang ^a   Wang, Lin ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bird community; Disturbance; Forest fragmentation; Rubber plantation; Similarity index

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DEFORESTATION; DICOTYLEDON; DISTURBANCE; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDEX METHOD; INSECTIVORE; PATCH USE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

AVES; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 84870225444     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.09.024     Document Type: Article

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