Matrix habitat and species richness in tropical forest remnants

Biological Conservation

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 223-229

  Gascon, Claude ^a   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^a   Bierregaard Jr , Richard O ^a   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Stouffer, Phillip C ^a   Vasconcelos, Heraldo L ^a   Laurance, William F ^a   Zimmerman, Barbara ^a   Tocher, Mandy ^a   Borges, Sérgio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian rainforest; Extinction proneness; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Matrix habitats; Species invasions

Indexed keywords

FAUNA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT USE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032745507     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00080-4     Document Type: Article

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