Forest edges have high conservation value for bird communities in mosaic landscapes

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 5178-5189

  Terraube, Julien ^a,b   Archaux, Frédéric ^c   Deconchat, Marc ^d   van Halder, Inge ^b   Jactel, Hervé ^b   Barbaro, Luc ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c Cemagref   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; community specialization index; conservation value index; ecosystem services; foraging guilds; fragmented forests; functional traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977513645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2273     Document Type: Article

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