Volcanic caves: Priorities for conserving the Azorean endemic troglobiont species

International Journal of Speleology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-112

  Borges, Paulo A V ^a,b,c   Cardoso, Pedro ^a,d,e   Amorim, Isabel R ^a,b   Pereira, Fernando ^a,b,c   Constância, João P ^b,c   Nunes, João C ^a,b,c   Barcelos, Paulo ^b,c   Costa, Paulino ^b,c,f   Gabriel, Rosalina ^a   Dapkevicius, Maria de Lurdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b 'Os Montanheiros'   (Portugal)

^c GESPEA Grupo para o Estudo do Património Espeleológico dos Açores   (Portugal)

^d Associação dos Espeleólogos de Sintra FPE   (Portugal)

^e Núcleo de Espeleologia da Costa Azul FPE   (Portugal)

^f Departamento de Geociências ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azorean lava tubes; Complementarity; Conservation; Fraction of spare; Irreplaceability; Multi criteria index

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAVE; COMPLEMENTARITY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FAUNA; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 84858755023     PISSN: 03926672     EISSN: 1827806X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.11     Document Type: Article

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