Reservoirs of richness: Least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1726, 2011, Pages 67-76

  Giam, Xingli ^a   Scheffers, Brett R ^b   Sodhi, Navjot S ^b   Wilcove, David S ^a,c   Ceballos, Gerardo ^d   Ehrlich, Paul R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Conservation; Endangerment; Generalized linear mixed models; Mammals; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOME; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HOME RANGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METAZOAN; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 81855224830     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0433     Document Type: Article

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