The importance of islands for the protection of biological and linguistic diversity

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 592-597

  Tershy, Bernie R ^a   Shen, Kuo Wei ^a   Newton, Kelly M ^a   Holmes, Nick D ^b   Croll, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ISLAND CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; conservation; extinction; islands; linguistics

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84930401606     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv031     Document Type: Review

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