Conservation targets: Do they help?

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5359, 1998, Pages 2060-2061

  Soulé, Michael E ^a   Sanjayan, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Round River Conservation Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0032571524     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5359.2060     Document Type: Review

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