Land management practices for combating desertification cause species replacement of desert lizards

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 701-709

  Hawlena, Dror ^a,b   Bouskila, Amos ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acanthodactylus beershebensis; Avian predators; Combating desertification; Conservation; Habitat complexity; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERTIFICATION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LIZARD; PATCH DYNAMICS; PITFALL TRAP; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPTOR; RUNOFF; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

AVES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33745699534     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01177.x     Document Type: Article

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