Response of a desert lizard community to habitat degradation: Do ideas about habitat specialists/generalists hold?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-62

  Attum, Omar ^a   Eason, Perri ^a   Cobbs, Gary ^a   Baha El Din, Sherif M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Desertification; Generalists; Habitat degradation; Specialists; Species composition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOME; DESERTIFICATION; GENERALIST; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LIZARD; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; SINAI;

REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748692774     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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