Decline of mammal species diversity along the Yungas forest of Argentina

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 515-521

  Ojeda, Ricardo A ^a   Barquez, Rubén M ^b   Stadler, Jutta ^c   Brandl, Roland ^d  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Geographic range edges; Macroniches; Neotropical forest mammals; North West Argentina; Tropical temperate ecotone; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; POPULATION DECLINE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 64549145531     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00401.x     Document Type: Article

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