Integrating highly diverse invertebrates into broad-scale analyses of cross-taxon congruence across the Palaearctic

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1019-1030

  Schuldt, Andreas ^a   Wang, Zhiheng ^b,c   Zhou, Hongzhang ^d   Assmann, Thorsten ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDEMISM; HOT SPOT; INVERTEBRATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; GREECE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMPHIBIA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72049127799     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05973.x     Document Type: Article

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