title: Tropical ecology: riparian corridors connect fragmented forest bird populations.
abstract: Landscape corridors connecting habitat patches may help overcome the genetic and demographic problems of small and isolated populations. An elegant field experiment shows that some Costa Rican forest birds will use 'riparian' (river margin) corridors to get back home, but they can be picky about corridor quality.
authors.affiliation: Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. cagan@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Cagan H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Sekercioglu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D001717:Birds; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003364:Costa Rica; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D045483:Rivers; D014197:Trees; D014329:Tropical Climate