Choice of species-area function affects identification of hotspots

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 140-147

  Veech, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0034030002     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99064.x     Document Type: Article

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