Ecology of rodent communities in agricultural habitats in eastern Sierra Leone: Cocoa groves as forest refugia

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-142

  Barnett, A A ^a   Read, N ^a   Scurlock, J ^a   Low, C ^a   Norris, H ^a   Shapley, R ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocoa; Deforestation; Diversity; Rainforest; Refugia; Rodents; Sierra Leone; Vegetation density

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT SELECTION; RODENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 0034436284     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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