Biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism: Comments

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 266-268

  Leroux, Shawn J ^a,b   Schmiegelow, Fiona K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 33847003978     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00628.x     Document Type: Note

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