Rare Species Are Valued Big Time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Angulo, Elena ^a,b   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649199605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005215     Document Type: Article

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