Demographic consequences of population subdivision on the long-furred woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus paraguayanus) from the Atlantic Forest

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-68

  Brito, Daniel ^a,b   da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Demographic stochasticity; Habitat fragmentation; Metapopulation dynamics; Micoureus; Population subdivision; Population viability analysis; VORTEX

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; DISPERSION; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MARSUPIAL; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RODENT; STOCHASTICITY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; METATHERIA; MICOUREUS; MICOUREUS DEMERARAE; MICOUREUS PARAGUAYANUS;

EID: 33847292367     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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