Dissociating several forms of commonness in birds sheds new light on biotic homogenization

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 416-426

  Godet, Laurent ^a   Gaüzere, Pierre ^b   Jiguet, Frédéric ^c   Devictor, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Birds; Commonness; Functional diversity; Range; Rarity; Specialization

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; RANGE SIZE; RARITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FRANCE;

AVES;

EID: 84924006006     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12266     Document Type: Article

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