Biodiversity and extinction: Macroecological patterns and people

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-269

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; MACROECOLOGY;

EID: 33646265019     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0309133306pp483pr     Document Type: Article

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