Terrestrial mammal responses to habitat structure and quality of remnant riparian forests in an Amazonian cattle-ranching landscape

Biological Conservation

Volumn 206, Issue , 2017, Pages 283-292

  Zimbres, Barbara ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^b   Machado, Ricardo Bomfim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological corridors; Forest degradation; Functional diversity; Landscape connectivity; Riparian zones

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONNECTIVITY; DEFORESTATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDHOLDING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAMMAL; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRAPPING;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

BOS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 85008195252     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.033     Document Type: Article

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