Special section: Brazilian conservation - Challenges and opportunities

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 595-600

  Brandon, Katrina ^a   Da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^a,b   Rylands, Anthony B ^a,b   Da Silva, José Maria Cardoso ^c  

^a Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Conservação Internacional Brasil ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURE CONSERVATION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20044380043     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00710.x     Document Type: Review

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