The biogeographical assignment of a west Kenyan rain forest remnant: Further evidence from analysis of its reptile fauna

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1349-1361

  Wagner, Philipp ^a   Köhler, Jörn ^b   Schmitz, Andreas ^c   Böhme, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ^*  (Germany)

^c MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; East Africa; Forest refugia; Guineo Congolian rain forest; Kakamega forest; Kenya; Reptiles; Sub Saharan Africa; Zoogeographical relationships

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; FIELD SURVEY; FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIGRATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; REFUGE; REPTILE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KAKAMEGA FOREST; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN PROVINCE [KENYA];

AVES; ODONATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 47949088238     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01883.x     Document Type: Article

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