Effects of landscape structure, habitat and human disturbance on birds: A case study in East Dongting Lake wetland

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-75

  Yuan, Yujie ^a   Zeng, Guangming ^a   Liang, Jie ^a   Li, Xiaodong ^a   Li, Zhongwu ^a   Zhang, Chang ^a   Huang, Lu ^a   Lai, Xu ^a   Lu, Lunhui ^a   Wu, Haipeng ^a   Yu, Xun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Birds; Canonical correspondence analysis; East Dongting Lake wetland; Environmental variables; Partial analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; NOBELIUM; WETLANDS;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EAST DONGTING LAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; PARTIAL ANALYSIS;

BIRDS;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

CHINA; DONGTING LAKE; HUNAN;

EID: 84899582922     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.012     Document Type: Article

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