Strategies to protect biological diversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain it

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 238-254

  Moritz, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation genetics; ESUs; Phylogeography; Prioritization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036554568     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150252899752     Document Type: Article

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