How many plant species are there, where are they, and at what rate are they going extinct?

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 170-176

  Pimm, Stuart L ^a   Joppa, Lucas N ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; discoverycurves; extinctionrates; floweringplants; missingspecies

Indexed keywords

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84924975986     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2012018     Document Type: Article

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