Amphibian conservation: Are we on the right track?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2912-2917

  Brito, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAPÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anura; Attention index; Biogeographic realms; Caudata; Gymnophiona; Priorities

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; NEARCTIC REGION; PALEARCTIC REGION; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPICAL REGION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; CAUDATA; GYMNOPHIONA; MAMMALIA; ORYX; REPTILIA;

EID: 53749085692     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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