Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6744, 1999, Pages 563-566

  Crooks, Kevin R ^a   Soulé, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wildlands Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; URBAN AREA;

AVES; CANIS LATRANS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033526979     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23028     Document Type: Article

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