Limestone karsts of southeast Asia: Imperiled arks of biodiversity

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 733-742

  Clements, Reuben ^a   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Schilthuizen, Menno ^b   Ng, Peter K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Karstic; Mining; Outcrop; Protected area

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748476251     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[733:LKOSAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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