Unprotecting the rare species: A niche-based gap analysis for odonates in a core Cerrado area

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 491-505

  Nóbrega, Caroline C ^a   De Marco, Paulo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; Gap analysis; Range size; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLY; LAND USE CHANGE; LINEARITY; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

BRAZIL;

ODONATA;

EID: 79953793096     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00749.x     Document Type: Article

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