An empirical investigation of why species-area relationships overestimate species losses

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1253-1263

  De Camargo, Rafael X ^a   Currie, David J ^a   Morris, D W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bird species richness; Breeding bird atlas; Canada; Countryside model; Endemic area relationship; Forest cover; Human dominated land cover; Southern Ontario; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND COVER; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONTARIO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84929094716     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2362.1     Document Type: Article

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