Detecting biodiversity hotspots by species-area relationships: A case study of mediterranean beetles

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1169-1180

  Fattorini, Simone ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coleoptera Tenebrionidae; Greece; Island biogeography

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; DETECTION METHOD; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HOT SPOT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 33746459355     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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