Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7053, 2005, Pages 1016-1019

  Orme, C David L ^a   Davies, Richard G ^b   Burgess, Malcolm ^a   Eigenbrod, Felix ^a   Pickup, Nicola ^a   Olson, Valerie A ^c   Webster, Andrea J ^d   Ding, Tzung Su ^e   Rasmussen, Pamela C ^f   Ridgely, Robert S ^g   Stattersfield, Ali J ^h   Bennett, Peter M ^c   Blackburn, Tim M ^d   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Owens, Ian P F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HOTSPOTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ENDEMISM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION;

AVES;

EID: 23944521069     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03850     Document Type: Article

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