Ecological impacts of forest fragmentation in central Amazonia

Zoology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 273-280

  Gascon, Claude ^a   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deforestation; Ecosystem function; Landscape change; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040120135     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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