Taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary uniqueness in bird communities of Beijing's urban parks: Effects of land use and vegetation structure

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 23, Issue , 2017, Pages 84-92

  Morelli, Federico ^a   Benedetti, Yanina ^a   Su, Tongping ^b,c   Zhou, Bo ^b   Moravec, David ^a   Šímová, Petra ^a   Liang, Wei ^b  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Evolutionary distinctiveness; Functional diversity; Species richness; Urban parks; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GREENSPACE; LAND USE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

AVES;

EID: 85015396287     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.03.009     Document Type: Article

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