Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 6056-6061

  Alroy, John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Lambda 5 index; Mass extinction; Multiton subsampling; Species extinction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANURA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HABITAT; HABITAT QUALITY; MASS EXTINCTION; NONHUMAN; PANTALA FLAVESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE SPECIES; RATTUS RATTUS; RHINELLA MARINA; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WASMANNIA AUROPUNCTATA; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOREST; PROCEDURES; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRENDS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FORESTS; RAINFOREST; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 85020440692     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611855114     Document Type: Article

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