Bird communities in habitats along a successional gradient: Divergent patterns of species richness, specialization and threat

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 423-431

  Reif, Jiří ^a,b   Marhoul, Pavel ^c   Koptík, Jiří ^c  

^a Charles University   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c DAPHNE R Institute of Applied Ecology   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Birds; Community specialization index; Diversity; Ecological succession; IUCN Red List

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84879886415     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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