Habitat specialization interacts with habitat amount to determine dispersal success of rodents in fragmented landscapes

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 714-726

  Püttker, Thomas ^a,b   Bueno, Adriana A ^a   De Barros, Camila Dos Santos ^a   Sommer, Simone ^b   Pardini, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brazilian Atlantic Forest; Demography; Extinction threshold; Fragmentation threshold; Mark recapture; Patcharea effect; Robust design; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; FOREST COVER; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SPECIALIST; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878857994     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/12-MAMM-A-119.1     Document Type: Article

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