Critical habitat and the role of peer review in government decisions

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 686-690

  Noah Greenwald, D N ^a   Suckling, Kieran F ^b   Pimm, Stuart L ^c  

^a Center for Biological Diversity   (United States)

^b Center for Biological Diversity   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conservation; endangered species; extinction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864048529     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.7.11     Document Type: Article

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