Correlations among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa

Biological Conservation

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-177

  Burgess, Neil D ^a,b,c   Balmford, Andrew ^c   Cordeiro, Norbert J ^d,e,f   Fjeldså, Jon ^g   Küper, Wolfgang ^h   Rahbek, Carsten ⁱ   Sanderson, Eric W ^j   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^k   Sommer, J Henning ^h   Williams, Paul H ^l  

^a WWF USA Conservation Science Program ^*  (United States)

^b Conservation and Management of the Eastern Arc Mountain Forests ^*  (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^f TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^l DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Africa; Biodiversity; Human infrastructure; Human population; Tropical mountains

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORRELATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT; RANGE SIZE; RARITY; RED LIST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VERTEBRATE;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN ARC MOUNTAINS; KENYA; NIGERIA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751348804     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.08.024     Document Type: Article

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