Correlating small mammal community characteristics and habitat integrity in the Caledon Nature Reserve, South Africa

Mammalia

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 186-191

  Avenant, Nico L ^a,b   Watson, Johan P ^c   Schulze, Erika ^c  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^c Department of Tourism Environmental and Economic Affairs ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community structure; Diversity; Ecosystem integrity; Small mammal; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT QUALITY; NATURE RESERVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; CALEDON NATURE RESERVE; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; MASTOMYS; MASTOMYS COUCHA;

EID: 53549123835     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2008.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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