Time lag between deforestation and bird extinction in tropical forest fragments

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1140-1150

  Brooks, Thomas M ^a,b,c   Pimm, Stuart L ^a   Oyugi, Joseph O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTION; FRAGMENTATION;

KENYA;

AVES; KAKAMEGA;

EID: 0032827316     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98341.x     Document Type: Article

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