Reduced rainfall explains avian declines in an unfragmented landscape: Incremental steps toward an empty forest?

Emu

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 112-121

  Stevens, Helen C ^a   Watson, David M ^b  

^a not available   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

agricultural landscape; drought; extinction debt; insectivore; local extinction; productivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AVIFAUNA; DROUGHT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INSECTIVORE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; RAINFALL; SONGBIRD;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; WARRUMBUNGLE RANGE;

ALBOGULARIS; ARTHROPODA; AVES; COLLURICINCLA HARMONICA; EOPSALTRIA AUSTRALIS; GERYGONE; GERYGONE OLIVACEA; MALURUS CYANEUS; PACHYCEPHALA RUFIVENTRIS; RHIPIDURA; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84878326629     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU12063     Document Type: Article

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