Short perceptual range and yet successful invasion of a fragmented landscape: The case of the red-bellied tree squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus) in Argentina

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 633-640

  Bridgman, Lucy J ^a   Benitez, Verónica V ^b   Graña Grilli, Maricel ^b   Mufato, Natalia ^b   Acosta, Daniela ^b   Guichón, M Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Invasive rodents; Landscape connectivity; Orientation; Translocation experiment

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY MASS; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MATRIX; ORIENTATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT; TRANSLOCATION; VULNERABILITY; WOODLAND;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS;

ANIMALIA; CALLOSCIURUS ERYTHRAEUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS AUREOGASTER;

EID: 84859875590     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9727-2     Document Type: Article

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