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| Mammalian diversity in Neotropical lowland rainforests : a preliminary assessment. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 230 |
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| Title: | Mammalian diversity in Neotropical lowland rainforests : a preliminary assessment. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 230 |
| Other Titles: | Rainforest mammal diversity |
| Authors: | Voss, Robert S. Emmons, Louise. |
| Issue Date: | 1996 |
| Publisher: | [New York] : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 230 |
| Abstract: | "Information about the magnitude and geographic distribution of mammalian diversity in Neotropical lowland rainforests is important for evaluating research and conservation priorities in Central and South America. Although relevant inventory data are rapidly accumulating in the literature, real site-to-site diversity differences are hard to identify because many confounding factors can affect the size and composition of faunal lists. Herein we assess the available information about Neotropical rainforest mammal diversity and suggest guidelines for future work by reviewing inventory methods, documenting and discussing faunal lists from ten localities, and summarizing geographic range data to predict diversity patterns that can be tested by field and museum research. All inventory methods are biased because each is suitable for collecting or observing only a fraction of the morphologically and behaviorally diverse mammalian fauna that inhabits Neotropical rainforests. Hence, many methods... |
| Description: | 115 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-86). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1671 |
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