Long-term dynamics of a fragmented rainforest mammal assemblage

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1154-1164

  Laurance, William F ^a   Laurance, Susan G ^a   Hilbert, David W ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cyclones; Forest fragmentation; Long term research; Mammal assemblages; Marsupials; Matrix vegetation; Queensland; Tropical rainforests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CYCLONE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; RECOLONIZATION; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLONE; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CYCLONES; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUEENSLAND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

BASSARISCUS; DENDROLAGUS; DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI; HEMIBELIDEUS LEMUROIDES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; PSEUDOCHEIRUS HERBERTENSIS; PSEUDOCHIROPS ARCHERI; THYLOGALE; THYLOGALE STIGMATICA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 43449115242     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00981.x     Document Type: Article

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