Determinants of differential extinction vulnerabilities of small mammals in Atlantic forest fragments in Brazil

Biological Conservation

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-80

  Viveiros De Castro, Ernesto B ^a,b   Fernandez, Fernando A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b IBAMA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Extinction proneness; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

FOREST; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATURE CONSERVATION; PREDICTION; SMALL MAMMAL; VULNERABILITY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 2642564574     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.10.023     Document Type: Article

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