Challenging Wallacean and Linnean shortfalls: Knowledge gradients and conservation planning in a biodiversity hotspot

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 475-482

  Bini, Luis Mauricio ^a   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre F ^a   Rangel, Thiago F L V B ^a   Bastos, Rogério Pereira ^a   Pinto, Miriam Plaza ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anurans; Biodiversity knowledge; Cerrado; Conservation planning

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; KNOWLEDGE; NEW SPECIES; RANGE SIZE;

ANURA; GABAZA;

EID: 33747445582     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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