Spatially explicit analyses highlight idiosyncrasies: Species extinctions and the loss of evolutionary history

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1543-1552

  Batista, Mariana C G ^a   Gouveia, Sidney F ^b   Silvano, Débora L ^c   Rangel, Thiago F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anurans; Conservation; Extinction scenarios; New World; Phylogenetic distinctiveness; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FROG; PHYLOGENETICS; RARITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANURA;

EID: 84887249957     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12126     Document Type: Article

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