Current and historical factors influencing patterns of species richness and turnover of birds in the Gulf of Guinea highlands

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1371-1384

  Graham, Catherine H ^a,b   Smith, Thomas B ^c   Languy, Marc ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d World Wildlife Fund for Nature   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Birds; Cameroon; Conservation planning; Endemics; Gulf of guinea highlands; Historical isolation; Matrix models; Prioritization; Richness; Turnover

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION; ENDEMISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TURNOVER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF GUINEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AVES;

EID: 27744543925     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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