Are cities different? Patterns of species richness and beta diversity of urban bird communities and regional species assemblages in Europe

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 479-489

  Ferenc, Michal ^a   Sedláček, Ondřej ^a   Fuchs, Roman ^a,b   Dinetti, Marco ^c   Fraissinet, Maurizio ^d   Storch, David ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c Ecologia Urbana   (Italy)

^d Associazione Studi Ornitologici Italia Meridionale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Birds; Distance decay of similarity; European cities; Homogenization; Latitudinal gradient of species richness; Species area relationship; Urbanization; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HOMOGENEITY; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 84896714307     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12130     Document Type: Article

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