Patch size, functional isolation, visibility and matrix permeability influences neotropical primate occurrence within highly fragmented landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Da Silva, Lucas Goulart ^a   Ribeiro, Milton Cezar ^b   Hasui, Érica ^a   Da Costa, Carla Aparecida ^a   Da Cunha, Rogério Grassetto Teixeira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALFENAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BRAZIL; CALLICEBUS NIGRIFRONS; CALLITHRIX AURITA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAND SPREADING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATRIX PERMEABILITY INDEX; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMATE; SAPAJUS NIGRITUS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES ISOLATION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; SPECIES VISIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY;

CALLICEBUS NIGRIFRONS; CALLITHRIX AURITA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRIMATES;

EID: 84922648051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114025     Document Type: Article

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