Amazonian conservation in a changing world

Biological Conservation

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 219-228

  Bush, Mark B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biodiversity; Climatic change; Conservation; Holocene; Hydrology; Paleoecology; Pleistocene; Refugia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATIC CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; REFUGIUM; RESERVE DESIGN;

SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZONIA;

EID: 0029775288     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3207(95)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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