Reptile diversity and rodent community structure across a political border

Biological Conservation

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 292-299

  Shanas, Uri ^a,b   Abu Galyun, Yunes ^c   Alshamlih, Mohammed ^c   Cnaani, Jonathan ^b   Khoury, Fares ^c   Mittler, Shacham ^a   Nassar, Khaled ^d   Shapira, Idan ^a   Simon, Danny ^e   Sultan, Hatem ^d   Topel, Elad ^f   Ziv, Yaron ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Ucitel) Guscio, Dalit   (Israel)

^c HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^d Society for Sustainable Development   (Jordan)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Culture; Desert; Diversity; Reptile; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PASTORALISM; PEACE PROCESS; POLITICAL BORDER; REPTILE; RODENT;

ARAVA VALLEY; ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

GERBILLINAE; REPTILIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 33745900270     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.04.021     Document Type: Article

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