Responses of 'resistant' vertebrates to habitat loss and fragmentation: The importance of niche breadth and range boundaries

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-18

  Swihart, Robert K ^a   Gehring, Thomas M ^b   Kolozsvary, Mary Beth ^c   Nupp, Thomas E ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Akaike weights; Amphibians; Geographical range boundary; Habitat loss and fragmentation; Mammals; Niche breadth; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; NICHE BREADTH; VERTEBRATE;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037248071     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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