Bird community responses to the edge between suburbs and reserves

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 545-557

  Ikin, Karen ^a   Barton, Philip S ^a   Knight, Emma ^a,b   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Fischer, Joern ^a,c   Manning, Adrian D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community composition; Conservation management; Edge effects; Functional guilds; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GUILD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CANBERRA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; TREES;

EID: 84892837196     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2793-6     Document Type: Article

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