Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 963-970

  Karp, Daniel S ^a   Rominger, Andrew J ^b   Zook, Jim ^c   Ranganathan, Jai ^d   Ehrlich, Paul R ^a   Daily, Gretchen C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Unión de Ornitólogos de Costa Rica ^*  (Costa Rica)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bird; Countryside biogeography; Environmental filtering; Homogenisation; Intensification; Sampling effects; Turnover; diversity

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84931748969     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01815.x     Document Type: Article

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