Receding forest edges and vanishing reserves

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5470, 2000, Pages 1356-1358

  Gascon, Claude ^a   Williamson, G Bruce ^b,c   Da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^a,d  

^a Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SHORT SURVEY; WILDLIFE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POACEAE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PLANTS; POACEAE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0034717053     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5470.1356     Document Type: Short Survey

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