Developing conservation strategies for endemic tree species when faced with time and data constraints: Boswellia spp. on Socotra (Yemen)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1483-1499

  Attorre, Fabio ^a   Taleb, Nadim ^b   De Sanctis, Michele ^a   Farcomeni, Alessio ^a   Guillet, Alfredo ^c   Vitale, Marcello ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Socotra Governance and Biodiversity Project   (Yemen)

^c Central Technical Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modelling; IUCN Red List; Random Forest; Soil parameters; Weibull function

Indexed keywords

DIAMETER; DICOTYLEDON; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; FIELDWORK; MEDICINAL PLANT; NICHE PARTITIONING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITIZATION; RED LIST; REGENERATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEIBULL THEORY;

HADRAMAWT; SOCOTRA; YEMEN;

BOSWELLIA; BOSWELLIA AMEERO; BOSWELLIA BULLATA; BOSWELLIA ELONGATA; BOSWELLIA SOCOTRANA;

EID: 79956127895     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0039-7     Document Type: Article

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