Flagship species, ecological complementarity and conserving the diversity of mammals and birds in sub-Saharan Africa

Animal Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 249-260

  Williams, Paul H ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^b   Rahbek, Carsten ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0001264534     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943000000974     Document Type: Article

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