Mining matrix effects on West African rainforest birds

Biological Conservation

Volumn 169, Issue , 2014, Pages 334-343

  Deikumah, Justus P ^a,b   McAlpine, Clive A ^a   Maron, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Edge effects; Forest specialists; Functional groups; Matrix type; Remnants; South west Ghana; Species richness; Surface mining

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EDGE EFFECT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT LOSS; MATRIX; MINING; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GHANA;

EID: 84890933489     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.11.030     Document Type: Article

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