Identifying important endemic areas using ecoregions: Birds and mammals in the Indo-Pacific

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Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-101

  Fa, John E ^a   Burn, Robert W ^b   Stanley Price, Mark R ^a   Underwood, Fiona M ^c  

^a DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Ecoregions; Endemic species; Indo Pacific region; Mammals

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOREGION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; PRIORITIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 22144486836     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605304000146     Document Type: Article

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