Pliny the elder's silphium: First recorded species extinction

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 925-927

  Parejko, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION;

SAMBUCUS NIGRA CANADENSIS; SILPHIUM;

EID: 0038580531     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02067.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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