Local richness and distribution of the lizard fauna in natural habitat mosaics of the Brazilian Cerrado

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-96

  Nogueira, Cristiano ^a,c   Colli, Guarino R ^b   Martins, Marcio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c Ed Business Point   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cerrado; Habitat use; Lizards; Squamate reptiles

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CERRADO; DOMINANCE; HERPETOFAUNA; LIZARD; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; IGUANIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58249105088     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2008.01887.x     Document Type: Article

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