Ecological redundancy and long-term dynamics of vertebrate predators in semiarid Chile

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 252-262

  Jaksic, Fabian M ^a   Feinsinger, Peter ^b   Jimenez, Jaime E ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION EFFORT; ECOLOGICAL REDUNDANCY; FOX; GUILD STRUCTURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CHILE, AUCO;

CANIDAE; FALCONIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0029667694     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10010252.x     Document Type: Article

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