Disturbance-mediated mammal persistence and abundance-area relationships in Amazonian forest fragments

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1626-1640

  Michalski, Fernanda ^a,b   Peres, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto Pro Carnivoros   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian forest; Forest disturbance; Forest fragmentation; Mammal abundance; Species abundance; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; PERSISTENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYNERGISM; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MAMMAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARMADILLO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 37349074468     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00797.x     Document Type: Article

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