From plot to landscape scale: Linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 153-160

  Defries, Ruth ^a   Rovero, Francesco ^b   Wright, Patricia ^c   Ahumada, Jorge ^d   Andelman, Sandy ^d   Brandon, Katrina ^e   Dempewolf, Jan ^a,d   Hansen, Andrew ^f   Hewson, Jenny ^e   Liu, Jianguo ^g  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Conservation International ^*  (United States)

^e Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^f MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; LANDSCAPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

MADAGASCAR; RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK; TANZANIA; UDZUNGWA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77950807877     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/080104     Document Type: Article

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