Patterns of endemic extinctions among island bird species

Ecography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 661-676

  Biber, Eric ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY;

ANURA; AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036944399     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.t01-1-250603.x     Document Type: Article

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