Countryside Biogeography of Neotropical Mammals: Conservation Opportunities in Agricultural Landscapes of Costa Rica

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1814-1826

  Daily, Gretchen C ^a   Ceballos, Gerardo ^b   Pacheco, Jesús ^b   Suzán, Gerardo ^b,d   Sánchez Azofeifa, Arturo ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION; MAMMAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA PALLIATA; CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA ONCA; TAPIRUS BAIRDII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346735380     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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