Patterns of bird functional diversity on land-bridge island fragments

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 781-790

  Ding, Zhifeng ^a   Feeley, Kenneth J ^b,c   Wang, Yanping ^a   Pakeman, Robin J ^d   Ding, Ping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird community; Functional divergence; Functional evenness; Functional richness; Habitat filtering; Land bridge islands; Thousand Island Lake

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LAND BRIDGE; PATCHINESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

CHINA; QIANDAO LAKE; ZHEJIANG;

AVES;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CHINA; ISLANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84879152572     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12046     Document Type: Article

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