Species' response patterns to habitat fragmentation: Do trees support the extinction threshold hypothesis?

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1335-1343

  Montoya, Daniel ^a   Alburquerque, Fabio S ^a   Rueda, Marta ^a   Rodríguez, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TREE;

EID: 77955151790     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18280.x     Document Type: Article

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