Human Influence and Classical Biogeographic Predictors of Rare Species Occurrence

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 417-421

  Bennett, Joseph R ^a,b   Arcese, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Extinction; Genetic rescue; Isolation; Metapopulation; Prioritization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PLANT DISPERSAL; UNITED STATES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ISLANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISPERSAL; WASHINGTON;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; GEORGIA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875519629     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12015     Document Type: Article

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