Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Vale, Cândida Gomes ^a,b,c   Pimm, Stuart L ^c   Brito, José Carlos ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MAURITANIA; MOUNTAIN ROCK POOL; NONHUMAN; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTEBRATE; WATER AVAILABILITY; ANIMAL; DESERT CLIMATE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; SEDIMENT;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; MAURITANIA;

EID: 84923899624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118367     Document Type: Article

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