Paying the extinction debt in southern Wisconsin forest understories

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1497-1506

  Rogers, David A ^a,c   Rooney, Thomas P ^b   Hawbaker, Todd J ^c   Radeloff, Volker C ^c   Waller, Donald M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction debt; Fragmentation; Homogenization; Metacommunity dynamics; Southern Wisconsin; Species loss; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASELINE SURVEY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; METAPOPULATION; NEW SPECIES; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; WISCONSIN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 70450235205     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01256.x     Document Type: Article

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