Extinction risk escalates in the tropics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Vamosi, Jana C ^a   Vamosi, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FLORA; FOREST STRUCTURE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICS; VASCULAR PLANT; ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT; RISK; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BIVALVIA; COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; RISK; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 57549104124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003886     Document Type: Article

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