Selecting wilderness areas to conserve Utah's biological diversity

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-118

  Davidson, Diane W ^a   Newmark, William D ^b   Sites Jr , Jack W ^c   Shiozawa, Dennis K ^c   Rickart, Eric A ^b   Harper, Kimball T ^c   Keiter, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bees; biodiversity; Bureau of Land Management; conservation; cryptobiotic soils; endemic species; exotic species; plants; Utah; vertebrates; wilderness

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029841099     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.4109     Document Type: Article

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