Endemism, vulnerability and conservation issues for small terrestrial mammals from the Balkans and Anatolia

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-302

  Kryštufek, Boris ^a   Vohralík, Vladimír ^b   Obuch, Ján ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspots; Conservation priorities; Population decline; Rarity; Rodentia; Soricomorpha; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION RISK; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RARITY; RODENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

ANATOLIA; BALKANS; TURKEY;

DINAROMYS BOGDANOVI; MAMMALIA; MYOMIMUS ROACHI; RODENTIA; SORICOMORPHA; TALPA;

EID: 72949102484     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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