Identifying priority areas for conservation and management in diverse tropical forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Mokany, Karel ^a   Westcott, David A ^a   Prasad, Soumya ^b   Ford, Andrew J ^a   Metcalfe, Daniel J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ATHERTON TABLELANDS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; DAINTREE RAINFOREST; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VASCULAR PLANT;

AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84895875548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089084     Document Type: Article

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