Species Distribution and Richness Patterns of Bird Communities in the High Elevation Forests of Virginia

Island biogeography theory predicts that the patterns and distributions of spatially isolated populations are governed by large scale processes. The high elevations forests in the Southern Appalachians represent a series of naturally fragmented islands that harbor many isolated populations of speci...

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Main Author: Lessig, Heather
Other Authors: Biology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35899
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12012008-122250/