Biodiversity assessment and conservation strategies

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5359, 1998, Pages 2106-2108

  Van Jaarsveld, Albert S ^a   Freitag, Stefanie ^a   Chown, Steven L ^a   Muller, Caron ^a   Koch, Stephanie ^a   Hull, Heath ^a   Bellamy, Chuck ^b   Krüger, Martin ^b   Endrödy Younga, Sebastian ^b   Mansell, Mervyn W ^c   Scholtz, Clarke H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

^c PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION STRATEGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 7144251871     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5359.2106     Document Type: Article

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