Biodiversity: Where's Hot and Where's Not

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1442-1448

  Brummitt, Neil ^a   Lughadha, Eimear Nic ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0141873073     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02344.x     Document Type: Note

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