Geographic trends and information deficits in Amazonian conservation research

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2853-2863

  dos Santos, Jhonatan Guedes ^a   Malhado, Ana C M ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^a,b   Correia, Ricardo A ^a,b,c   Costa, Marcos H ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Climatic uncertainty; Deforestation; Research effort

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT LOSS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAVANNA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AMAZONIA;

SCOPUS;

EID: 84942549335     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-015-0981-x     Document Type: Article

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