Habitat destruction and the extinction debt revisited

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 784-789

  Loehle, Craig ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered species; Extinction theory; Extinction debt model; Habitat fragmentation; Landscapes; Spatial scale, importance of; Species area curve

Indexed keywords

DEVEGETATION; EXTINCTION DEBT; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; REMNANT VEGETATION;

EID: 0030403455     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269483     Document Type: Article

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