Land-use and land-cover effects on regional biodiversity distribution in a subtropical dry forest: A hierarchical integrative multi-taxa study

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1549-1561

  Torres, Ricardo ^a   Gasparri, N Ignacio ^b   Blendinger, Pedro G ^b   Grau, H Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Birds; Chaco; Hierarchical species distribution modeling; Mammals; Trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904642151     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0604-1     Document Type: Article

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