How may agricultural matrix intensification affect understory birds in an Atlantic Forest landscape? A qualitative model on stochasticity and immigration

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 93-106

  Goulart, Fernando F ^a   Salles, Paulo ^a   Machado, Ricardo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Conservation; Local extinction; Metapopulation; Qualitative reasoning; Rescue effect

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; BIOME; IMMIGRATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOLONIZATION; SONGBIRD; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL REGION; UNDERSTORY;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

EID: 84881240930     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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