Evaluating the legacy of landscape history: Extinction debt and species credit in bird and small mammal assemblages in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1325-1333

  Lira, Paula K ^a   Ewers, Robert M ^b   Banks Leite, Cristina ^a,b   Pardini, Renata ^a   Metzger, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extinction threshold; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Habitat regeneration; Landscape connectivity; Landscape dynamics; Landscape structure

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTION; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; IMMIGRATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SMALL MAMMAL; TAXONOMY; THRESHOLD; UNDERSTORY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870339565     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02214.x     Document Type: Article

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