Importance of cryptic species for identifying 'representative' units of biodiversity for freshwater conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2821-2831

  Cook, Benjamin D ^a   Page, Timothy J ^a   Hughes, Jane M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atyidae; Cryptic species; Freshwater conservation; Phylogenetic diversity (PD); Taxonomic resolution

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; CRUSTACEAN; ENDEMISM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ATYIDAE (CRUSTACEANS); CARIDINA MCCULLOCHI; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PARATYA AUSTRALIENSIS;

EID: 53649091841     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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