Tropical diversity and conservation;Diversidad tropical y conservacion

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 713-718

  Briggs, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRE OF ORIGIN; CONSERVATION; TROPICS;

EID: 0030461598     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10030713.x     Document Type: Review

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