Introduction: Special section: New insights into the tropical biodiversity crisis

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1382-1385

  Laurance, William F ^b   Wright, S Joseph ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 70450240889     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01339.x     Document Type: Review

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