Opposing responses of bird functional diversity to vegetation structural diversity in wet and dry forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Sitters, Holly ^a   York, Alan ^a   Swan, Matthew ^a   Christie, Fiona ^a   Stefano, Julian Di ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BIRD; FOREST; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84991772221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164917     Document Type: Article

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