The impacts of forest clearance on lizard, small mammal and bird communities in the arid spiny forest, southern Madagascar

Biological Conservation

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-87

  Scott, Dawn M ^a   Brown, Daniel ^a   Mahood, Simon ^a   Denton, Buck ^a   Silburn, Anastasia ^a   Rakotondraparany, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community composition; Deforestation; Madagascar; Spiny forest; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27644556341     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.07.014     Document Type: Article

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