Biogeographic crossroads as priority areas for biodiversity conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1480-1487

  Spector, Sacha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0036901050     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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