Introduction: The Brazilian atlantic forest

Biotropica

Volumn 32, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2000, Pages 786-792

  Morellato, L Patrícia C ^a   Haddad, Célio F B ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Biodiversity; Brazil; Conservation; Fragmentation; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENDEMISM; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0035009123     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2000.tb00618.x     Document Type: Article

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