Biodiversity and reduced extinction risks in spatially isolated rodent populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-13

  Ritchie, Mark E ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Extinction; Mammals; Metapopulation; Plants; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

CYNOMYS PARVIDENS;

EID: 0033061011     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.21044.x     Document Type: Article

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