Biodiversity and land-use change: Understanding the complex responses of an endemic-rich bird assemblage

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 411-422

  de Lima, Ricardo Faustino ^a   Dallimer, Martin ^b   Atkinson, Philip W ^c   Barlow, Jos ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assemblage composition and structure; Biodiversity loss; Landscape context; S o Tom island; Species richness; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; CANOPY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; PERSISTENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE;

AVES;

EID: 84875057712     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12015     Document Type: Article

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