Mammals of the Mediterranean islands: Homogenisation and the loss of biodiversity

Mammalia

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 169-202

  Masseti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthropochorous mammals; Endemic faunas; Generalist species; Holocene; Mediterranean islands; Upper Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXTINCTION; GENERALIST; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 70349391374     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2009.029     Document Type: Review

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