The Guayana Highlands: A promised (but threatened) land for ecological and evolutionary science

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-34

  Rull, Valentí ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climatic change; Diversity; Endemism; Neotropics; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846087811     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00215.x     Document Type: Note

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