Biogeographical and Taxonomic Biases in Tropical Forest Fragmentation Research

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1522-1531

  Deikumah, Justus P ^a   Mcalpine, Clive A ^a   Maron, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Afrotropics; Biogeographic bias; Deforestation; Fauna population decline; Taxonomic bias; Tropical forest biomes

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; DEFORESTATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH WORK; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84912532258     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12348     Document Type: Article

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