Biodiversity: The known, unknown, and rates of extinction

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages R368-R371

  Costello, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS;

EID: 84929660055     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.051     Document Type: Short Survey

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