Environmental diversity: On the best-possible use of surrogate data for assessing the relative biodiversity of sets of areas

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 399-415

  Faith, D P ^a   Walker, P A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dissimilarities; Diversity measures; Gap analysis; Ordination; P median

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTERING; CONSERVATION; ORDINATION; RELATIVE BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 0030460213     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00056387     Document Type: Article

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