Amphibians over the edge: Silent extinction risk of Data Deficient species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 837-846

  Howard, Sam D ^a   Bickford, David P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anura; Caudata; Gymnophiona; IUCN Redlist; Machine learning; Predictive model

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; EXTINCTION RISK; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PRIORITIZATION; RANKING;

ASIA; CENTRAL AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84902296474     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12218     Document Type: Article

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