Global distribution and drivers of language extinction risk

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1793, 2014, Pages

  Amano, Tatsuya ^a   Sandel, Brody ^b   Eager, Heidi ^c,d   Bulteau, Edouard ^e   Svenning, Jens Christian ^b   Dalsgaard, Bo ^f   Rahbek, Carsten ^f   Davies, Richard G ^g   Sutherland, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural conservation; Cultural diversity; Endangered languages; Human ecology; Language conservation; Macroecology

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXTINCTION RISK; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MACROECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; TROPICAL REGION;

HIMALAYAS; NORTH AMERICA;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK;

EID: 84931285676     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1574     Document Type: Article

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