Umbrellas and flagships: Efficient conservation surrogates or expensive mistakes?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 5954-5959

  Andelman, Sandy J ^a,b   Fagan, William F ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034705197     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.100126797     Document Type: Article

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