Responses of mammalian carnivores to land use in arid savanna rangelands

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 552-564

  Blaum, Niels ^a   Rossmanith, Eva ^a   Schwager, Monika ^b   Jeltsch, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Shrub encroachment; Species diversity; Structural diversity; Trophic level; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; ISOPTERA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 35148813034     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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