Ecological biogeography of Malagasy non-volant mammals: Community structure is correlated with habitat

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1144-1159

  Muldoon, Kathleen M ^a   Goodman, Steven M ^b,c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c Vahatra   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Clustering; Community ecology; Discriminant function analysis; Ecological structure; Ecoregion; Madagascar; Mammals; Presence absence data; Taxonomic structure

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; BODY MASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FLIGHTLESSNESS; HABITAT TYPE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; OMNIVORY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

MADAGASCAR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954039639     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02276.x     Document Type: Article

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