The biodiversity crisis and the future of evolution

Environmentalist

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-47

  Myers, Norman ^a  

^a Upper Meadow   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATION; EXTINCTION; MASS EXTINCTION;

EID: 0030461834     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01325613     Document Type: Article

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