title: Conservation ecology: area trumps mobility in fragment bird extinctions.
abstract: Tropical forest understory birds are highly sensitive to habitat fragmentation. Recent results from a monumental Amazonian fragmentation experiment show that habitat needs of these specialized birds make mobility a liability, leading to their extinctions from forest fragments.
authors: Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford, California 94305-5020, USA. cagan@stanford.edu
authors: Cagan H
authors: CH
authors: Sekercioglu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D014197:Trees; D014329:Tropical Climate