Combining plant and bird data increases the accuracy of an Index of Biotic Integrity to assess conservation levels of tropical forest fragments

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-7

  Medeiros, Hugo Reis ^a   Bochio, Gabriela Menezes ^a   Ribeiro, Milton Cezar ^b   Torezan, José Marcelo ^a   dos Anjos, Luiz ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Avifauna; Bioindicators; Ecological integrity; Landscape configuration; Rapid assessment methods; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANT; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AVES;

EID: 84930047176     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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