Targeted reforestation could reverse declines in connectivity for understory birds in a tropical habitat corridor

Ecological Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1456-1474

  Fagan, Matthew E ^a,f   De Fries, Ruth S ^b   Sesnie, Steven E ^c   Arroyo Mora, J Pablo ^d   Chazdon, Robin L ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Fragmentation; Functional connectivity; Glyphorynchus spirurus; Henicorhina leucosticta; Myrmeciza exsul; Payments for environmental services; Reforestation; Thamnophilus atrinucha; Tropical conservation

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; OVERSTORY; PASSERINE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PROTECTED AREA; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL REGION; UNDERSTORY;

COSTA RICA; SAN JUAN-LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR;

AVES; GLYPHORYNCHUS SPIRURUS; HENICORHINA LEUCOSTICTA; MYRMECIZA EXSUL; THAMNOPHILUS ATRINUCHA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIRD; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; FORESTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84977676761     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-2188     Document Type: Article

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