The changing ecology of tropical forests

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 291-311

  Phillips, O L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biodiversity; carbon fertilization; climate change; defaunation; degradation; fragmentation; increasing turnover; interactions; monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST; FOREST DEGRADATION; HABITAT DEGRADATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030619315     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018352405482     Document Type: Article

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