Demography, traits and vulnerability to urbanization: Can we make generalizations?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1455-1464

  Brown, Leone M ^a,b   Graham, Catherine H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Conservation; Demography; Environmental filtering; Human disturbance; Life history; Reproduction; Survival; Traits; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY; NEST SITE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 84952636798     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12521     Document Type: Article

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