Basic Biogeography: Estimating Biodiversity and Mapping Nature

Conservation Biogeography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-92

  Riddle, Brett R ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^b,c   Lourie, Sara A ^d   Whittaker, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic biogeography, estimating biodiversity and mapping nature; Compositionalist and functionalist approaches mapping marine environments; Compositionalist biogeographical approaches biodiversity variation geographically; Conservation biogeography and fundamental taxonomic units; Distribution of diversity challenges and applications; Foundational approaches within biogeography world's major biogeographical regions; Initiatives, reducing linnean and wallacean shortfalls new species discovered; Mapping function biomes, ecosystems and communities; Three knowledge shortfalls and linnean shortfall, after karl von linne, species discrepancy; Wallacean shortfall, of geographical distributions of species linnean and wallacean shortfalls, on sea than on land

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885502115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390001.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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