Extinction rates of North American freshwater fauna

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1220-1222

  Ricciardi, Anthony ^a   Rasmussen, Joseph B ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032877922     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98380.x     Document Type: Article

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