Major gaps in the distribution of protected areas for threatened and narrow range Afrotropical plants

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1877-1894

  Burgess, Neil ^a,b   Küper, Wolfgang ^c   Mutke, Jens ^c   Brown, Joanna ^d   Westaway, Sally ^d   Turpie, Susie ^d   Meshack, Charles ^e   Taplin, James ^d   McClean, Colin ^d   Lovett, Jon C ^d  

^a WWF US Conservation Science Program ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e Tanzania Forest Conservation Group   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Afrotropical region; Forest reserves; Geographically rare plants; IUCN coded protected areas; Threatened plants

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PROTECTED AREA; RARITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21144448389     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-1299-2     Document Type: Article

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