The influence of urbanisation on diversity and trait composition of birds

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 943-957

  Meffert, Peter J ^a,c   Dziock, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c not available   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenisation; Community assembly; Fourth corner analysis; Urban matrix; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WASTELAND;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

AVES;

EID: 84876981995     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9867-z     Document Type: Article

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