Evaluation of microhabitats for wild birds in a Shanghai urban area park

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 246-254

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

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Science and Technology Museum   (China)

^c Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Bird community; Microhabitat; Shanghai; Urban park; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GREENSPACE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE; MICROHABITAT; REVEGETATION; SHRUB; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION; WOODLAND;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

AVES;

EID: 84940164130     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.02.005     Document Type: Article

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