Modeling the effects of anthropogenic habitat change on savanna snake invasions into African rainforest

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-92

  Freedman, Adam H ^a   Buermann, Wolfgang ^a   Lebreton, Matthew ^b,c   Chirio, Laurent ^b,d   Smith, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Projet CAMHERP   (Cameroon)

^c Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program   (Cameroon)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Habitat fragmentation; Invasion; Rainforest; Snakes; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; NEST SITE; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; SNAKE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAKE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAKES; TREES;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

CAUSUS MACULATUS; DROMOPHIS LINEATUS; LAMPROPHIS FULIGINOSUS; SERPENTES; TROPIDOCLONION;

EID: 58249120616     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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