Richness is not all: How changes in avian functional diversity reflect major landscape modification caused by pine plantations

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 836-847

  Lindenmayer, David ^a,b   Blanchard, Wade ^a   Tennant, Philip ^a,b   Barton, Philip ^a   Ikin, Karen ^a,b   Mortelliti, Alessio ^a,b   Okada, Sachiko ^a,b   Crane, Mason ^a,b   Michael, Damian ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bird assemblage; Functional richness; Functional traits; Plantation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOTIC FACTOR; BIRD; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PATCH SIZE; PLANTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; RADIATA;

EID: 84931956676     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12328     Document Type: Article

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