Environmental species sorting dominates forest-bird community assembly across scales

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 266-274

  Özkan, Korhan ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Jeppesen, Erik ^a,b,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research   (China)

Author keywords

Bird metacommunity; Niche breadth; Niche position; Occupancy; Regional effects; Temperate forest; Western Palaearctic

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; NICHE; PALEARCTIC REGION; RANGE SIZE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

FRANCE; TURKEY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84872605345     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02019.x     Document Type: Article

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