How many species are there in Brazil?

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 619-624

  Lewinsohn, Thomas M ^a   Prado, Paulo Inácio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPECIES INVENTORY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 20144384524     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00680.x     Document Type: Review

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