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Deforestation and apparent extinctions of endemic forest beetles in Madagascar
Madagascar has lost about half of its forest cover since 1953 with much regional variation, for instance most of the coastal lowland forests have been cleared. We sampled the endemic forest-dwelling Helictopleurini dung beetles across Madagascar during 2002–2006. Our samples include 29 of the 51 pre...
Autores principales: | Hanski, Ilkka, Koivulehto, Helena, Cameron, Alison, Rahagalala, Pierre |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1995085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17341451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0043 |
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