Correlates of vertebrate extinction risk in Canada

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 538-549

  Anderson, Sean C ^a   Farmer, Robert G ^a   Ferretti, Francesco ^a   Houde, Aimee Lee S ^b   Hutchings, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

birds; COSEWIC; fishes; human impact; life history; mammals

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960178947     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.7.8     Document Type: Article

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