Tropical wildlife corridors: Use of linear rainforest remnants by arboreal mammals

Biological Conservation

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 231-239

  Laurance, Susan G ^a,b   Laurance, William F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c Biodiversity Support Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboreal mammals; Australia; Habitat fragmentation; Marsupials; North Queensland; Rainforest; Tropical forest; Wildlife corridors

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; MARSUPIAL; RAINFOREST;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ACACIA; ALOPIAS; BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS; DACTYLOPSILA TRIVIRGATA; DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI; HEMIBELIDEUS LEMUROIDES; MACROPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; PSEUDOCHEIRUS HERBERTENSIS; PSEUDOCHIROPS ARCHERI; PSEUDOCHIRULUS; PSEUDOCHIRULUS HERBERTENSIS; STREPSIRHINI; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0032694650     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00077-4     Document Type: Article

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