Extinction filters and current resilience: The significance of past selection pressures for conservation biology

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 193-196

  Balmford, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION FILTER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALAEONTOLOGY; RESILIENCE;

EID: 0029668268     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)10026-4     Document Type: Review

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