Integrating biosystematic data into conservation planning: Perspectives from southern Africa’s Succulent Karoo

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 317-330

  Desmet, P G ^a   Cowling, R M ^b   Ellis, A G ^a,c   Pressey, R L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cape Floral Kingdom; Conservation planning; Evolutionary processes; Morphological variation; Phylogeography; Spatial surrogates; Succulent Karoo; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT;

AFRICA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PLANTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036554498     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150252899798     Document Type: Article

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