Assembly and disassembly of mammal communities in a fragmented temperate rain forest

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1517-1532

  Lomolino, Mark V ^a   Perault, David R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b LYNCHBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly of ecological communities; Community assembly; Community ecology; Corridors, role in conserving native species; Fragmentation; Landscape manipulation, effects on mammal community; Mammalian community structure; Old growth forest; Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, (USA); Species composition, patterns; Temperate rain forests

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAINFOREST; SECONDARY FOREST; TEMPERATE FOREST;

OLYMPIC PENINSULA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033923087     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1517:AADOMC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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