Insect biodiversity and conservation in Australasia

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2010, Pages 55-75

  Cranston, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Biogeography; Endemism; Lord Howe Island; New Guinea; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INSECT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INSECTS;

EID: 77449088752     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-112408-085348     Document Type: Review

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