Effects of forest fragmentation, introduced Rattus rattus and the role of exotic tree plantations and secondary vegetation for the conservation of an endemic rodent and a small lemur in littoral forests of southeastern Madagascar

Animal Conservation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-183

  Ramanamanjato, Jean Baptiste ^a   Ganzhorn, Jörg U ^b  

^a QIT Madagascar Minerals ^*  (Madagascar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELIURUS WEBBI; LEMUR; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; NESOMYINAE; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0011573279     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943001001202     Document Type: Article

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