National biodiversity risk assessment: A composite multivariate and index approach

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 945-965

  Reyers, Belinda ^a   Van Jaarsveld, Alberts S ^a   McGeoch, Melodie A ^a   James, Alexander N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Index; Multivariate; National; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031782005     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008881405539     Document Type: Article

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