The status of dwarf carnivores on Cozumel Island, Mexico

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 317-331

  Cuarón, Alfredo D ^a   Martínez Morales, Miguel Angel ^a   McFadden, Katherine W ^b   Valenzuela, David ^c   Gompper, Matthew E ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Univ Autdnoma del Estado de Morelos   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Cozumel; Island endemics; Nasua nelsoni; Potos flavus; Procyon pygmaeus; Taxonomic status; Urocyon cinereoargenteus; Yucat n

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ISLAND; TAXONOMY;

COZUMEL; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; QUINTANA ROO;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; NASUA; NASUA NASUA; POTOS FLAVUS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; PROCYON PYGMAEUS; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS;

EID: 0742305473     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BIOC.0000006501.80472.cc     Document Type: Conference Paper

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