Prairie dog towns as islands: Applications of island biogeography and landscape ecology for conserving nonvolant terrestrial vertebrates

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 275-286

  Lomolino, Mark V ^a   Smith, Gregory A ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Black tailed prairie dog; Conservation; Cynomys ludovicianus; Fragmentation; Great Plains; Keystone species; Mammals; Oklahoma; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRAIRIE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTEBRATE; AMPHIBIAN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MAMMAL; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; REPTILE;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041764410     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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