Effects of landscape disturbance on animal communities in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1017-1033

  Alin, Simone R ^a,d,h   Cohen, Andrew S ^a   Bills, Roger ^b   Gashagaza, Masta Mukwaya ^c   Michel, Ellinor ^d   Tiercelin, Jean Jacques ^e   Martens, Koen ^f   Coveliers, Peter ^g   Mboko, Sima Keita ^h   West, Kelly ⁱ   Soreghan, Michael ^j   Kimbadi, Sona ^h   Ntakimazi, Gaspard ^k  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^f ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^g Democratic Republic of Congo ^*  (Belgium)

^h Center de Recherche en Hydrobiologie   (Burundi)

ⁱ Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project   (Burundi)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BURUNDI   (Burundi)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; MOLLUSCA; OSTRACODA; PISCES;

EID: 0032828211     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.96476.x     Document Type: Article

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