A frontier model for landscape ecology: The tapir in Honduras

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-125

  Flesher, Kevin ^a   Ley, Eduardo ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Habitat fragmentation; Mammalian persistence models

Indexed keywords

FRONTIER MODEL; TAPIR;

HONDURAS;

TAPIRUS BAIRDII;

EID: 0030479534     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02427857     Document Type: Article

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