Beyond the fragmentation threshold hypothesis: Regime shifts in biodiversity across fragmented landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Pardini, Renata ^a   de Bueno, Adriana Arruda ^a   Gardner, Toby A ^b   Prado, Paulo Inácio ^a   Metzger, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDICTION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 78149463001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013666     Document Type: Article

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