Conservation implications of the natural loss of lineages in wild mammals and birds

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 857-867

  Gompper, Matthew E ^a   Stagey, Peter B ^a   Berger, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACORN WOODPECKER; BISON; CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIVERSITY; WHITE-NOSED COATI;

AVES; BISON; BISON BISON BISON; BUBALUS; MAMMALIA; MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS; NASUA NARICA; NASUA NASUA;

EID: 0030753819     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96169.x     Document Type: Review

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