The conservation value of small, isolated fragments of lowland tropical rain forest

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 330-333

  Turner, Ian M ^a   Corlett, Richard T ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; VERTEBRATA;

CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RAINFOREST; REFUGE;

EID: 0030455503     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)10046-X     Document Type: Review

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