Spatial congruence in language and species richness but not threat in the world’s top linguistic hotspot

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1796, 2014, Pages

  Turvey, Samuel T ^a   Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biocultural diversity; Language evolution; New Guinea; Threatened languages

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CULTURAL TRADITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PRIORITIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

NEW GUINEA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAMMAL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAMMALS; NEW GUINEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84908179689     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1644     Document Type: Article

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