Deforestation predicts the number of threatened birds in insular southeast Asia

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 382-394

  Brooks, Thomas M ^a   Pimm, Stuart L ^a,b   Collart, Nigel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Tbirdlife International   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENDEMIC BIRD; EXTINCTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDONESIA; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0030619909     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95493.x     Document Type: Article

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