Scale Dependency of Rarity, Extinction Risk, and Conservation Priority

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1559-1570

  Hartley, Stephen ^a,b   Kunin, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION DECLINE; RARITY; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0347473813     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00015.x     Document Type: Review

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