Conservation of tropical plant biodiversity: What have we done, where are we going?

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 693-708

  Krupnick, Gary A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global strategy for plant conservation; Management; Protected areas; Threatened species; Tropical ecosystems

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HABITAT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT; POLLUTION; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84886949194     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12064     Document Type: Article

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