The world's rediscovered species: Back from the brink?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Scheffers, Brett R ^a   Yong, Ding Li ^a   Harris, J Berton C ^b   Giam, Xingli ^c   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RECOVERY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TREND STUDY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MAMMALS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960775493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022531     Document Type: Article

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