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Influence of wetland landscape structure of shorebirds wintering in an agricultural valley

Creator:

Taft, Oriane Williams

Abstract:

Understanding how wetland birds use habitat is pivotal to developing successful and beneficial conservation strategies. Although it has been an ardent topic in forest research for some time, how species interact with the spatial patterning of habitat across a landscape (i.e., landscape structure) has been more or less neglected in...

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Dissertation

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ecology, this study is among the first to examine the relationship between landscape pattern and
Biogeographic and experimental evidence for local scale dispersal limitation in central Panamanian forest birds

Creator:

Moore, Randall Phillips, 1965-

Abstract:

I examined the avian biogeography of the islands of Lago Gatun, Panama, in an effort to better understand the effects of forest fragmentation in this biodiverse region, and specifically to understand the importance of fragment isolation and the mechanism behind its effects on tropical bird distribution. I combined exhaustive surveys...

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Dissertation

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close to a general rule of ecology as exists (Schoener 1976), and it is an expected result of any