Use of Cross-Taxon congruence for hotspot identification at a regional scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Fattorini, Simone ^a,b   Dennis, Roger L H ^c,d   Cook, Laurence M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAUNA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84862745067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040018     Document Type: Article

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