Are protected areas required to maintain functional diversity in human-modified landscapes?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Cottee Jones, H Eden W ^a   Matthews, Thomas J ^a,b   Bregman, Tom P ^c   Barua, Maan ^a   Tamuly, Jatin ^d   Whittaker, Robert J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Wild Grass EcoLodge   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FICUS; FRUGIVORE; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INDIA; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISPERSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FICUS; FORESTS;

EID: 84929121425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123952     Document Type: Article

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