Shrew species diversity and abundance in ziama biosphere reserve, Guinea: Comparison among primary forest, degraded forest and restoration plots

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2043-2061

  Nicolas, Violaine ^a   Barrière, Patrick ^b,c   Tapiero, Audrey ^c   Colyn, Marc ^c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b AICA CREG ^*  (New Caledonia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecology; Forest restoration; Shrews; Soricidae; Species inventory; Tropical forest; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; BIODIVERSITY; CLEARCUTTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST CANOPY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA; GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

SORICIDAE;

EID: 70350617821     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9572-4     Document Type: Article

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