What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 501-510

  Scheffers, Brett R ^a,b   Joppa, Lucas N ^c   Pimm, Stuart L ^d   Laurance, William F ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CRYPSIS; DATABASE; EXTINCTION; FUNGUS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA;

EID: 84865555328     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.05.008     Document Type: Review

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