Terrestrial mammal occupancy in the context of widespread forest loss and a proposed interoceanic canal in Nicaragua's decreasingly remote south Caribbean region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Jordan, Christopher A ^a,b,d   Schank, Cody J ^a,c   Urquhart, Gerald R ^d   Dans, Armando J ^a  

^a GLOBAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION   (United States)

^b PANTHERA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; FOREST; HABITAT; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MODEL; NICARAGUA; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SEASHORE; SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN REGION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NICARAGUA;

EID: 84962091309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151372     Document Type: Article

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