Mining and other threats to the New Caledonia biodiversity hotspot

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 498-499

  Pascal, Michel ^a   De Forges, Bertrand Richer ^b   Le Guyader, Hervé ^c   Simberloff, Daniel ^d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Centre de Nouméa ^*  (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; MINING;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 41849134269     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00889.x     Document Type: Article

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