Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1166-1177

  Metzger, Jean Paul ^a   Martensen, Alexandre Camargo ^a   Dixo, Marianna ^a   Bernacci, Luis Carlos ^b   Ribeiro, Milton Cezar ^a   Teixeira, Ana Maria Godoy ^a   Pardini, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Corridor; Extinction debt; Fragmentation; Secondary forest; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGENERATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC FOREST; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANURA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 63349093285     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.01.033     Document Type: Article

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