Mammals of Cabo Blanco: History, diversity, and conservation after 45 years of regrowth of a Costa Rican dry forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 997-1013

  Timm, Robert M ^a   Lieberman, Diana ^b   Lieberman, Milton ^c   McClearn, Deedra ^d  

^a Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco   (Costa Rica)

^d Organización para Estudios Tropicales   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Forest recovery; Habitat fragmentation; Neotropics; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFAUNATED; DRY FORESTS; FOREST COVER; FOREST RECOVERY; FOREST STRUCTURE; GENETIC STOCKS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MAMMAL SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NEOTROPICAL FORESTS; NEOTROPICS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; POPULATION LEVELS; PROTECTED AREAS; RAPID EXPANSION; SEED DISPERSERS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; OCEAN HABITATS; TEACHING; VEGETATION;

MAMMALS;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST COVER; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PROTECTED AREA; REGROWTH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOURISM; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAMMALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ATELES SP.; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; MAZAMA AMERICANA; MYRMECOPHAGA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; TAYASSU PECARI;

EID: 68749084864     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.10.027     Document Type: Article

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