Relative need for conservation assessments of vascular plant species among ecoregions

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-68

  Giam, Xingli ^a,b,c   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Brook, Barry W ^b   Tan, Hugh T W ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation assessment; Conservation biogeography; Habitat loss; Human population; IUCN; Plant species; Policy; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CERRADO; ECOREGION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANDES; CENTRAL AMERICA; EAST AFRICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 78650017217     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02383.x     Document Type: Article

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