Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-51

  Collen, Ben ^a   Whitton, Felix ^a,b   Dyer, Ellie E ^a,c   Baillie, Jonathan E M ^d   Cumberlidge, Neil ^e   Darwall, William R T ^f   Pollock, Caroline ^f   Richman, Nadia I ^a   Soulsby, Anne Marie ^a   Böhm, Monika ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Synchronicity Earth   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f IUCN SSC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congruence; Conservation planning; Decapods; Diversity metric; Geographical range; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION RISK; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; ASTACOIDEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84897088520     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12096     Document Type: Article

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