How to go extinct: Lessons from the lost plants of Krakatau

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1049-1064

  Whittaker, Robert J ^a   Field, Richard ^c   Partomihardjo, Tukirin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extinction estimates; Island biogeography; Krakatau islands; Plant dispersal; Sampling problems; Species abundance; Species turnover rates; Succession

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; TURNOVER;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0034490458     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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