Deforestation in central Chile causes a rapid decline in landscape connectivity for a forest specialist bird species

Ecological Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 481-492

  Vergara, Pablo M ^a   Pérez Hernández, Christian G ^a   Hahn, Ingo J ^b   Soto, Gerardo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Chile; Connectivity; Patch networks; Woodland birds

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONNECTIVITY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DECLINE; SHRUBLAND; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WOODLAND;

CHILE;

AVES;

EID: 84876961312     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-013-1037-x     Document Type: Article

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