Amazonian biodiversity and protected areas: Do they meet?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3011-3051

  Schulman, Leif ^a   Ruokolainen, Kalle ^b   Junikka, Leo ^a   Sääksjärvi, Ilari E ^b   Salo, Matti ^b   Juvonen, Sanna Kaisa ^b   Salo, Jukka ^b   Higgins, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon analysis; Biodiversity surrogates; Indicator species; Refuge hypothesis; Representativeness; Reserve selection; Strictly protected area; Systematic conservation planning; Workshop 90; Workshop 99

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOME; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSERVATION PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; RAINFOREST; REFUGE; RESERVE DESIGN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548187766     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9158-6     Document Type: Review

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