Biodiversity of tamaulipan thornscrub in relation to fragmentation

Jurado, Enrique y Cuellar, Gerardo y Flores, Mercedes y González, Ignacio (1999) Biodiversity of tamaulipan thornscrub in relation to fragmentation. USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS. pp. 272-275.

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Tamaulipan thornscrub has often been removed in northeastern Mexico to give way to agriculture and induced grasslands for cattle. This results in over 90% of thorn scrub being either removed or severely modified, with a few remaining fragments varying in size and distance to nearby fragments (isolation). Fragment size ranges from isolated trees in induced buffel grasslands to 300 ha of "continuous vegetation

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