Habitat filtering influences the phylogenetic structure of avian communities across a coastal gradient in southern Brazil

Austral Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-38

  Gianuca, Andros Tarouco ^a,c   Dias, Rafael Antunes ^b   Debastiani, Vanderlei Júlio ^b   Duarte, Leandro D S ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Niche conservatism; Phylogenetic beta diversity; Phylogenetic clustering; Phylogenetic fuzzy weighting; Principal coordinates of phylogenetic structure.

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HABITAT QUALITY; NATURE RESERVE; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BRAZIL;

AVES;

EID: 84893681145     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12042     Document Type: Article

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