Bird species turnover is related to changing predation risk along a vegetation gradient

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1670-1680

  Lamanna, Joseph A ^a   Hemenway, Amy B ^a   Boccadori, Vanna ^b   Martin, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Community ecology; Density; Distribution; Forest bird species; Habitat selection; Landscape scale experiment; Population ecology; Predation; Species turnover; USA; Vegetation gradient; Western Montana

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NEST PREDATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84930846857     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1333.1     Document Type: Article

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