Endemic vertebrates are the most effective surrogates for identifying conservation priorities among Brazilian ecoregions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 389-396

  Loyola, Rafael D ^a   Kubota, Umberto ^a   Lewinsohn, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity concordance; Complementarity; Conservation; Hotspots; Indicator groups; Species richness; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATABASE; ECOREGION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD; VERTEBRATE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250330363     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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