Private forest reserves can aid in preserving the community of medium and large-sized vertebrates in the Amazon arc of deforestation

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 505-518

  Negrões, Nuno ^a,b,c   Revilla, Eloy ^c   Fonseca, Carlos ^a   Soares, Amadeu M V M ^a   Jácomo, Anah T A ^b   Silveira, Leandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b Jaguar Conservation Fund   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity period; Amazon; Camera trapping; Tropical mammals and birds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MAMMAL; PROTECTED AREA; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; CANTAO STATE PARK; TOCANTINS;

AVES; CANTAO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951769750     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9961-3     Document Type: Article

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