Effects of habitat structure, human disturbance, and habitat connectivity on urban forest bird communities

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 857-870

  Kang, Wanmo ^a,c   Minor, Emily S ^b   Park, Chan Ryul ^c   Lee, Dowon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Avian diversity; Human disturbance; Management practices; Urban forests; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939654773     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0433-5     Document Type: Article

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