The influence of vegetation structure on bird guilds in an urban park

Shengtai Xuebao

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4824-4835

  Yang, Gang ^a   Xu, Jie ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Ding, Youzhong ^a   Yuan, Xiao ^b   Pei, Enle ^b   Ma, Bo ^b   Wang, Xiaoming ^c   Wang, Zhenghuan ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Wildlife Protection and Management Administration ^*  (China)

^c Shanghai Science and Technology Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Bird behavior; Bird guilds; Niche overlap; Principal component analysis; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GUILD; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORY; INSECTIVORY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NICHE OVERLAP; POPULATION DENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

AVES;

EID: 84938810053     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201311042667     Document Type: Article

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