Threatened biotas: "Hot spots" in tropical forests

The Environmentalist

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 187-208

  Myers, Norman ^a  

^a Upper Meadow   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION; FOREST; TROPICAL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CRITIQUE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; FORESTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; TREE; WORLD;

BIODIVERSITY; CRITIQUE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FORESTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; WORLD;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; TREES;

EID: 0024164896     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: 15732991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02240252     Document Type: Article

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