Honing Red List Assessments of lesser-known taxa in biodiversity hotspots

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2575-2586

  Samways, Michael J ^a   Grant, Paul B C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Flight period; Insects; Red List assessment; Temporal changes

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CONSERVATION STATUS; DRAGONFLY; PHENOLOGY; RED LIST; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA;

EID: 34248651478     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9023-z     Document Type: Article

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