Unraveling the drivers of community dissimilarity and species extinction in fragmented landscapes

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2560-2569

  Banks Leite, Cristina ^a,b   Ewers, Robert M ^b   Metzger, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Community; Fragmentation threshold; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Species turnover; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DATA SET; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES;

EID: 84871812487     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2054.1     Document Type: Article

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