Current constraints and future directions in estimating coextinction;Restricciones actuales y directrices futuras en la estimación de la coextinción

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 682-690

  Moir, Melinda L ^a   Vesk, Peter A ^a   Brennan, Karl E C ^b   Keith, David A ^c   Hughes, Lesley ^d   McCarthy, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^c NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction risk; Host specificity; Host switching; Insects; Invertebrates; Parasites; Plant insect interactions; Species loss

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION RISK; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST USE; INSECT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956552201     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01398.x     Document Type: Article

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