Biodiversity surrogate groups and conservation priority areas: Birds of the Brazilian Cerrado

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-86

  Pinto, Míriam Plaza ^a,d   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^a   Blamires, Daniel ^a,b   Rangel, Thiago Fernando L V B ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Birds; Efficiency; Representativeness; Reserve selection

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; BIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRAZIL; CERRADO; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; THAMNOPHILIDAE;

EID: 37149009874     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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