Biodiversity and extinction: Losing the common and the widespread

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-225

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Fuller, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION;

EID: 34249689538     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133307076488     Document Type: Article

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