High rates of extinction and threat in poorly studied taxa

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1273-1281

  McKinney, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 0032713648     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97393.x     Document Type: Article

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