Functional diversity of urban bird communities: Effects of landscape composition, green space area and vegetation cover

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 5230-5239

  Schütz, Claudia ^a   Schulze, Christian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Avifaunal richness; Ecological function; Environmental filter; Landscape composition; Tree cover; Urban birds; Urban ecology; Urban green area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947982927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1778     Document Type: Article

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