Diversity of rodents and shrews along an elevational gradient in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, south-western Uganda

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-123

  Kasangaki, Aventino ^a   Kityo, Robert ^b   Kerbis, Julian ^c  

^a Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Bwindi impenetrable; Endemism; Rodents; Shrews

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; ENDEMISM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

UGANDA;

AVES; CROCIDURA; HYLOMYSCUS; HYLOMYSCUS AETA; LOPHUROMYS; LOPHUROMYS MEDICAUDATUS; LOPHUROMYS RAHMI; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARACROCIDURA; PARACROCIDURA MAXIMA; RODENTIA; SORICIDAE; SUNCUS;

EID: 0037973653     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2028.2003.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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