A survey and overview of habitat fragmentation experiments

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 342-355

  Debinski, Diane M ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; RESEARCH PROGRAM;

EID: 0033998658     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98081.x     Document Type: Review

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