Death of biodiversity - The urgent need for global ecology

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 237-240

  Bowman, D M J S ^a  

^a Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Territory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Extinction; Global ecology; Global environmental change; Human impacts; Kyoto protocol

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000136269     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997598     Document Type: Article

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