Biodiversity hotspots and major tropical wilderness areas: Approaches to setting conservation priorities

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 516-520

  Mittermeier, Russell A ^a   Myers, Norman ^b   Tliomsen, Jörgen B ^a,c   Olivieri, Silvio ^a  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^b Upper Meadow   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

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EID: 0031861298     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.012003516.x     Document Type: Review

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