The distribution of cultural and biological diversity in Africa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1501, 2002, Pages 1645-1653

  Moore, Joslin L ^a   Manne, Lisa ^a   Brooks, Thomas ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^a   Davies, Robert ^a   Rahbek, Carsten ^a   Williams, Paul ^a   Balmford, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Biogeography; Humans; Language richness; Species richness; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE;

AFRICA; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0037158461     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2075     Document Type: Article

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