Broadening the extinction debate: Population deletions and additions in California and Western Australia

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 271-283

  Hobbs, Richard J ^a   Mooney, Harold A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; HUMAN IMPACT; INVASIVE SPECIES; RANGE CONTRACTING;

AUSTRALIA; CALIFORNIA; USA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031895156     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.96233.x     Document Type: Article

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