Responses of five small mammal species to micro-scale variations in vegetation structure in secondary Atlantic Forest remnants, Brazil

BMC Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Püttker, Thomas ^a   Pardini, Renata ^b   Meyer Lucht, Yvonne ^a   Sommer, Simone ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OPOSSUM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIGMODONTINAE; TREE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OPOSSUMS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIGMODONTINAE; TREES;

EID: 44349083040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-8-9     Document Type: Article

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