Regional scale effects of human density and forest disturbance on large-bodied vertebrates throughout the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-148

  Urquiza Haas, Tania ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^a   Dolman, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extinction risk; Forest cover; Habitat quality; Human population; Perturbation; Vertebrate diversity

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTION; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; PERTURBATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA PIGRA; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; AVES; CRAX RUBRA; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; MAZAMA; RAMPHASTOS SULFURATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57049126156     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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