Will hotspots conserve extra primate and carnivore evolutionary history?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 746-751

  Spathelf, Miles ^a   Waite, T A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Carnivores; Endemism; Hotspots; Phylogenetic diversity; Primates

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDEMISM; EVOLUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

PRIMATES;

EID: 35448992550     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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