The roles of landscape context, niche breadth, and range boundaries in predicting species responses to habitat alteration

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-287

  Swihart, Robert K ^a   Lusk, Jeffrey J ^a   Duchamp, Joseph E ^a   Rizkalla, Carol E ^a   Moore, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscapes; Aquatic turtles; Bats; Forest rodents; Geographical range boundary; Habitat loss and fragmentation; Niche breadth; Spatial location; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AMPHIBIAN; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; NICHE BREADTH; RODENT; VERTEBRATE;

INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WABASH BASIN;

AMPHIBIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646253914     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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