Southeast Asian biodiversity: An impending disaster

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 654-660

  Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Koh, Lian Pin ^a,b   Brook, Barry W ^c   Ng, Peter K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 8144225130     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.09.006     Document Type: Review

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