At the landscape level, birds respond strongly to habitat amount but weakly to fragmentation

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 629-639

  De Camargo, Rafael X ^a   Boucher Lalonde, Véronique ^a   Currie, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

extinction threshold hypothesis; forest cover; habitat amount hypothesis; habitat fragmentation hypothesis; human dominated land cover; probability of occurrence; richness; southern Ontario

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SURVIVAL;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES;

EID: 85040599511     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12706     Document Type: Article

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