Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 287-296

  Lôbo, Diele ^a   Leão, Tarciso ^a   Melo, Felipe P L ^a,b   Santos, André M M ^a   Tabarelli, Marcelo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Pesquisas Ambientais do Nordeste   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Disturbance adapted species; Habitat fragmentation; Native winners; Species similarity; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVERGENCE; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HOMOGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

EID: 79951680551     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00739.x     Document Type: Article

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