Complementarity as a biodiversity indicator strategy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1442, 2000, Pages 505-513

  Reyers, B ^a   Van Jaarsveld, A S ^a   Kruger M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Natural History Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Hot spots; Indicator; Reserves; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION PLANNING; RESERVE DESIGN; SITE SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; UGANDA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034615646     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1029     Document Type: Article

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