Tropical rain forest conservation and the twin challenges of diversity and rarity

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3263-3274

  Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Tropical forest conservation; Tropical tree rarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887675203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.705     Document Type: Article

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