image: Gibson and colleagues used live traps to sample small mammals on forest islands in Chiew Larn Reservoir. One species they found was the gray-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 September, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Luke Gibson at National University of Singapore in Singapore, and colleagues was titled, "Near-Complete Extinction of Native Small Mammal Fauna 25 Years After Forest Fragmentation." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Luke Gibson]