Predictions of mammal diversity on four land masses

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-149

  Medellín, Rodrigo A ^a   Soberón, Jorge ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Comn Nac Conocimiento Uso B ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0032968059     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97315.x     Document Type: Article

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