Landscape processes underpinning bird persistence and avian-mediated pest control in fragmented landscapes

The influence of habitat loss on biodiversity is related to a set of non-linear processes, which strongly affect isolation and connectivity and determine both extinction and colonization rates. Landscape changes due anthropogenic disturbances are driving not only species loss per se, but also lo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrea Larissa Boesing
Other Authors: Jean Paul Walter Metzger
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2016
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Online Access:http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41134/tde-16032017-134918/