On Bird Functional Diversity: Species Richness and Functional Differentiation Show Contrasting Responses to Rainfall and Vegetation Structure in an Arid Landscape

Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 971-984

  Seymour, Colleen L ^a,b   Simmons, Robert E ^b   Joseph, Grant S ^b   Slingsby, Jasper A ^b,c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION NETWORK   (South Africa)

Author keywords

aridity gradient; bush encroachment; bush thickening; environmental filtering; environmental gradients; functional uniqueness; null models; rare species; shrub encroachment; standardized effect size

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; NICHE OVERLAP; RAINFALL; RARE SPECIES; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STANDARDIZATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NAMIBIA;

AVES;

EID: 84940726051     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9875-8     Document Type: Article

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