Global tests of biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7081, 2006, Pages 212-214

  Lamoreux, John F ^a   Morrison, John C ^b   Ricketts, Taylor H ^b   Olson, David M ^c   Dinerstein, Eric ^b   McKnight, Meghan W ^d   Shugart, Herman H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society South Pacific Program   (Fiji)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION;

AMPHIBIANS; ENDEMISM;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDEMISM; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIRD; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644854104     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04291     Document Type: Article

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