Species or subspecies? The dilemma of taxonomic ranking of some South-East Asian hawk-eagles (genus Spizaetus)

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-117

  Gamauf, Anita ^a   Gjershaug, Jan Ove ^b   Røv, Nils ^b   Kvaløy, Kirsti ^b   Haring, Elisabeth ^a  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONCEPT; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

ACCIPITRINAE; CICONIIFORMES; SPIZAETUS; SPIZAETUS CIRRHATUS; SPIZAETUS LANCEOLATUS; SPIZAETUS PHILIPPENSIS;

EID: 18644379272     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270905000080     Document Type: Article

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