Funding begets biodiversity

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-200

  Ahrends, Antje ^a,b   Burgess, Neil D ^c,d,e   Gereau, Roy E ^f   Marchant, Rob ^a   Bulling, Mark T ^g,h   Lovett, Jon C ⁱ   Platts, Philip J ^a   Wilkins Kindemba, Victoria ^j   Owen, Nisha ^j   Fanning, Eibleis ^j   Rahbek, Carsten ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d WWF   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^j Society for Environmental Exploration   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity inventories; Conservation funding; Conservation priorities; Databiases; Endemism; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES;

EASTERN ARC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79951664464     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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