Biodiversity across a Rural Land-Use Gradient

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1425-1434

  Maestas, Jeremy D ^a,b   Knight, Richard L ^a   Gilgert, Wendell C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b US Nat Rsrc Conservation Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; RANCHING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

AVES; BOS TAURUS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CANIS LUPUS; CATUS; FELIS CATUS; FELIS SILVESTRIS;

EID: 0141873077     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02371.x     Document Type: Article

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