Abstract
Ornithologists have played a key role in the development of the habitat concept. The conspicuous nature of birds has allowed ornithologists to assemble a vast amount of information relating the distribution and abundance of birds to aspects of the environment (Brown, 1984; Mayr, 1988; Konishi et al., 1989; Morrison et al., 1992). The application of the term “habitat” has been used as a unifying, theoretical concept to explain the diversity of avian life-history patterns (Rotenberry, 1981). However, specific definitions of the term “habitat” are often vague. Definitions have ranged from, for example, how species are associated with broad, landscape-scaled vegetation types, to very detailed descriptions of immediate physical environments used by species (Karr, 1980; Verner et al., 1986; Harris and Kangas, 1988).
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Block, W.M., Brennan, L.A. (1993). The Habitat Concept in Ornithology. In: Power, D.M. (eds) Current Ornithology. Current Ornithology, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9912-5_2
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