Rainforest metropolis casts 1,000-km defaunation shadow

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

Volumn 114, Issue 32, 2017, Pages 8655-8659

  Tregidgo, Daniel J ^a,b   Barlow, Jos ^a,b   Pompeu, Paulo S ^b   Rocha, Mayana De Almeida ^c   Parry, Luke ^a,d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Fishing down; Freshwater biodiversity; Overfishing; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; BRAZIL; COLOSSOMA MACROPOMUM; ECOSYSTEM; FAUNA; FISHERMAN; FISHING; HUMAN; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MARKET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; URBANIZATION; WILDERNESS; ANIMAL; CITY PLANNING; FISH; RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FISHES; RAINFOREST; URBAN RENEWAL;

EID: 85026874881     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1614499114     Document Type: Article

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