A review of the relationships between human population density and biodiversity

Biological Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 607-645

  Luck, Gary W ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Extinctions; Human population density; Meta analysis; Protected areas; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRAIN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLISHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 35349012118     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00028.x     Document Type: Review

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