Cost-Effectiveness of Using Small Vertebrates as Indicators of Disturbance

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1331-1341

  Peck, Mika Robert ^a   Maddock, Simon T ^b   Morales, Jorge Noe ^c   Oñate, Hugolino ^c   Mafla Endara, Paola ^d   Peñafiel, Vanessa Aguirre ^d   Torres Carvajal, Omar ^d   Pozo Rivera, Wilmer E ^e   Cueva Arroyo, Xavier A ^e   Tolhurst, Bryony A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Barrio La Delicia   (Ecuador)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS ESPE   (Ecuador)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disturbance gradients; Ecological disturbance indicator species; Generalized linear modeling; IndVal; Survey costs; Tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ECONOMICS; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; LIZARD; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECUADOR; FORESTS; LINEAR MODELS; LIZARDS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84907953945     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12373     Document Type: Article

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