Article
Measuring habitat heterogeneity reveals new insights into bird community composition.
Oecologia - 1 Mar 2015
Stirnemann Ingrid A, Ikin Karen, Gibbons Philip, Blanchard Wade, Lindenmayer David B
Abstract excerpt
Fine-scale vegetation cover is a common variable used to explain animal occurrence, but we know less about the effects of fine-scale vegetation heterogeneity. Theoretically, fine-scale vegetation heterogeneity is an important driver of biodiversity because it captures the range of resources available in a given area. In this study we investigated how bird species richness and birds grouped by various ecological...
Topics
- Animals
- Biodiversity
- Birds
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Phenotype
- Trees
