Is the originality of a species measurable?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 579-586

  Pavoine, Sandrine ^a   Ollier, Sébastien ^a   Dufour, Anne Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carnivora; Conservation biology; Divergence times; Feature richness; Phylogenetics; Quadratic entropy; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; PHYLOGENETICS; TOPOLOGY;

CARNIVORA;

EID: 20444389407     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00752.x     Document Type: Review

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