The response of birds and mixed-species bird flocks to human-modified landscapes in Sri Lanka and southern India

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 329, Issue , 2014, Pages 384-392

  Goodale, Eben ^a   Kotagama, Sarath W ^b   Raman, T R Shankar ^c   Sidhu, Swati ^c   Goodale, Uromi ^a   Parker, Samuel ^d   Chen, Jin ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^c NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Anthropogenic disturbance; Biodiversity loss; Bird diversity; Buffer zones; Countryside biogeography

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

AGROFORESTRY; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; BIRD DIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONES; COUNTRYSIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PROTECTED AREA;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY;

INDIA; SRI LANKA;

AVES;

EID: 84907434735     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.08.022     Document Type: Article

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