The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

Biological Conservation

Volumn 155, Issue , 2012, Pages 136-140

  Tabarelli, Marcelo ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^b   Melo, Felipe P L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Floristic reassembly; Nonrandom extinction; Pioneer species; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION; FOREST EDGE; HOMOGENEITY; NATIVE SPECIES; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PARADIGM SHIFT; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84863826773     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.06.020     Document Type: Review

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