How many herbarium specimens are needed to detect threatened species?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2541-2547

  Rivers, Malin C ^a,b   Taylor, Lin ^a   Brummitt, Neil A ^c   Meagher, Thomas R ^b   Roberts, David L ^a,d   Lughadha, Eimear Nic ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation assessment; Herbarium specimen; Leguminosae; Madagascar; Orchidaceae; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DIGITIZATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HERBARIUM; LEGUME; MONOCOTYLEDON; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PRIORITIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

MADAGASCAR;

FABACEAE; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 84860389626     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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