The global 200: Priority ecoregions for global conservation

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-224

  Olson, David M ^a   Dinerstein, Eric ^a  

^a World Wildlife Fund US ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecoregions; Endemism; Global; Phenomena; Priority setting; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036071341     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3298564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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