Estimating patterns of reptile biodiversity in remote regions

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1202-1211

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a   Bonardi, Anna ^a   Sindaco, Roberto ^b   Padoa Schioppa, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphisbaenians; Biodiversity hotspots; Conservation biogeography; Ecogeography; Lizards; Predictive models; Spatial autocorrelation; Species richness; Survey bias; Turtles

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MONITORING; PALEARCTIC REGION; PREDICTION; REPTILE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEY;

CENTRAL ASIA; EUROPE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA;

REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84878013265     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12060     Document Type: Article

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