How well do we know species richness in a well-known continent? Temporal patterns of endemic and widespread species descriptions in the European fauna

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-39

  Essl, Franz ^a   Rabitsch, Wolfgang ^a   Dullinger, Stefan ^b,c   Moser, Dietmar ^a,c   Milasowszky, Norbert ^d  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^d Institut für angewandte Biologie und Umweltbildung IFABU   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time; Conservation biogeography; Cumulative species numbers; Europe; Fauna Europaea; Research effort; Species descriptions; Taxonomy; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

EUROPE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; CAELIFERA; CARABIDAE; GASTROPODA; HETEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870933738     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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