Relationship between spatial distribution of urban sprawl and species imperilment: Response to Brown and Laband - Commentary

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 546-548

  Baldwin, Robert F ^a   Ray, Justina C ^b   Trombulak, Stephen C ^c   Woolmer, Gillian ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society Canada   (Canada)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 33947522539     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00664.x     Document Type: Note

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